This is an interesting article, but I found I was able to read it, for the most part, by reading the first sentence of every paragraph. That shows how much fat there is in the typical magazine article.
This is actually something many authors aim for. Few readers need all the details, but some do, and this makes it obvious where to dig. It’s harder than it looks to pull off, without sounding stilted... perhaps because it’s the opposite of storytelling, where you build up to a punchline.