I've often told my non-techie friends that coding apps is akin to Rube Goldberg's drawing of inventions, and after 20 years of coding I still feel that way.
Like so much web these days, the article page itself is a not too ungoldbergist contraption, pulling in the services of at least ten external domains just to present us with a simple body of text and a bit of illustration.
It felt ironic to see the screens cartoon from the screen of a phone in bed...
It looks more like Tech took the wrong message out of the cartoons.
If only. It didn't even bother to read the message.