How can a video be better than text based info when we're talking about a programming task, which is all text?
You don't need to skim through the 4 hour video long to see it's full of whys and hows and explanations and demonstrations that massively dwarf the blog post. It's basically a mini course.
Programming is an interactive process, so transcribing the video to text also removes a lot information. The video isn't just an audio form of what could've been a long text tutorial. You're watching someone do something.
And those ideas absolutely can't be communicated in concise writing, I have to waste my life on listening to talking heads?
Whether you have the preference for it or not is not up for debate here.
So not all 4 hours are worth watching? :)
Different people learn in different ways. I wouldn’t call any of it a waste.