Agreed, the Economist's habit of laying out a few kindergarten-level facts and then extrapolating to what the world should do is pretty irritating. Enough that after one subscription I swore off reading them generally.
Can you provide some examples? I think this would only apply to the Leaders sections, but the point of it is to serve as introductions for later articles. The rest I've found to be thorough, especially the Briefing section and Technology Quarterly. It's definitely full of "shoulds" from a classical liberal perspective.
Yeah I stopped reading the economist a long time ago. Zero good information from them