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I might agree if the text wasn't so wide (edit: on my screen, at least). Longer lines are less readable because you can't easily find the next line when your eye flicks back to the left after finishing a line.

I use a narrow window, then I can scan the page down the middle reading all of the text as I go. Much faster and more convenient.

I also turn off the image to avoid the disruption. For me, reading the mobile version is much to be preferred.

Indeed, that's a disadvantage. However, this is easily fixed by resizing the browser window (reducing the width). I often do that with "normal" sites, too, if their text lines are too wide.

Because often it's a crippled or broken experience, where half the images are missing, or you can't zoom, or the text is cut off, or the columns too narrow.

Edit: Ironically, most of the issues above impact me the most when I really am on a mobile device.

Picture overlaps text, in my version of Chromium.