The majority of the linked articles is waaayyyyy too long for what they have to say, and they reveal the subject only many paragraphs in.

From reading one or a few short comments I at least know what the linked article is about, which the original headline often does not reveal (no fault of those authors, their blogs are often specialized and anyone finding the article there has much more context compared to finding the same headline here on a general aggregation site).

Strongly agree with this. Many authors and video creators have interesting, valuable things to say, but they don't exercise restraint or respect for their audience's time.

If something is overwhelmingly long, especially considering the subject matter, I just skip to the comments or throw it in an LLM to summarize.