Reading the core paper discussed in the article, along with all its context, will take ~hours. This article is a great 5-minute update on the latest research with a well written primer on the topic

>could read papers if they want but choose not to

Journals are expensive.

>catering to your level of literacy?

Lowering the cognitive effort required to acquire the new information makes it more broadly available. Both to people that couldn't comprehend the source material, and to those that could, but don't want to spend the cognitive energy.

I can understand the argument that we should avoid dumbing down our media, but this is a weird battle to pick. Go throw stones at youtube shorts if you're worried about modern media liquifying humanity's frontal cortex.