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This may be subjective. For others (including me), it drives the irritation level higher and makes it harder to pay attention. Ranty writing fuels my own tendency to get annoyed and ranty; it makes me want to disengage to preserve my own mood. ("Holub on Patterns" is one example of a book I couldn't finish because of this quality of the writing.)

Personally for me, concise and information-dense writing makes me sit up and pay attention.

> It drives the point home though

Is the argument too weak to do that on its own without the abuse?

That's the case for all technical arguments.

Arguments are seldom weak or strong based on their technical details.

Heck, the technical details about this were already known to many people including several involved in build setups, but nobody cared anyway.

I really found my chakras to be stimulated by the wordy venting as well. That's a very good point!