I would like to read the article, but my eyes do not appreciate white text and black BG web pages. It is incredibly jarring and almost painful once you go "back" to the "normal" web. I will stick with the comments for now I guess.
People with astigmatism (aproximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the “deformed” lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye.
But nobody uses it.
(This comment is not intended as an opinion in either direction on whether the original color scheme is reasonable or whether you doing these steps is reasonable.)
White-on-black text isn't normally that bad, I think it's the choice of thin font that makes it especially hard to read in this article.
Sure enough loading w/o 1Blocker enabled reader mode.
Very interesting.
This site is gray on gray, which makes it really freaking hard to read (and I have no issues with my eyes at all).
It turns crappy reading experiences into great ones.