huh, sorry I'm really bad at writing - this is one of my first attempts

I really enjoyed the read. Not everything needs to be some sort of utilitarian information density optimized reading piece.

Keep up the good work!

You're not. You're not bad at all. Please ignore the negatives here, they're certainly more a result of AI paranoia/fatigue than meaningful criticism.

Anyone reading this and who is complaining that it's too long and content-light? Respectfully, you really need to check yourselves, you're probably the one with the "internet brain" dopamine or whatever problem. This is NOT an unreasonable amount/style of words for what is said.

You're not bad at writing. You have your own style. Keep it up! This was an interesting article.

Your title promises a story about the spanish traders. It does not deliver, but talks about 3 other different topics that I'm not interested in and jumping between them to test my nerves. If it is about the architecture of whatever you are doing, put the architecture in the title and don't make your title an offhand comment somewhere there. Fucked up clickbite.