Tip: Try reading with Reader Mode.
however, when you're trying to convey information, this style of page is offensively bad and I doubt is really doing you any favors - inline images and videos do the exact same thing you're trying to accomplish here without all the obnoxiousness.
I feel like the tight integration of text and visual content does an excellent job of telling the story. There's no confused looking around for what goes with what. It's all tied together into a seamless narrative, sort of like television documentary style.
It seems like the issue you have is with scrolling down, but that's an advantage, because it means you can go at your own pace.
For me, it does add value, and that's totally valid too.
What value does it add for you?
And on desktop I'd not realised how much of the site was disabled under my default uMatrix configuration.
I know about "Snowfall" and other infographics. I'd much prefer straight text and static visualisations to the maximum extent possible.
Each of these has a different solution, or type of solution. Calling out any of those problems might be useful feedback for the site authors, or for industry professionals here.
For what it's worth, you can probably get what you want here: