True, because most of them either add a million diagrams or a million copy-pasted source code snippets. And this happens because people "respect" a thick book when they are looking for a technical book. It's quite silly, actually :)
somewhat unrelated, I don't use emacs but is there a way to break lines such as
#+caption: [[https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....]
in the org mode source? https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.org