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It's probably a retorical tool but not used to trick you into doing something you didn't want to do in the first place but instead used to asure you that all the "ordinary" remedies were visited but they were unhelpful.

Probably the point of the article is not simply to relay information in the simplest information possible but to couch it in a narrative to make it seem more memorable, more enjoyable, and more reliable.

Do you feel the same way about books?

The books I read have non-trivial content and are written in an engaging fashion, so, no, I don't.

If you're trying to skim the article you really ought to read the beginning and end first.