I tried to read TFA to learn about what's going on. It's an article about an invasive species of mushroom, right? I'd like to be informed.

The first sentence is:

"The razor blade of the newly unpacked surgical scalpel glints in the late Autumn light."

So I just immediately stopped reading.

This style of writing is exhausting and too common. It's an article about mushrooms, not a spy action thriller.

It feels like there had been some shift over the past decade that has been pushing / encouraging this style of writing, and I'm not sure what's caused it or what the solution is.

It's getting to the point that I'll need to use an LLM to summarize any article I care about to just extract the relevant info.

That would be particularly ironic if it was an LLM that generated the article.