No. What you say is simply factually inaccurate. I've looked at the web page in your URL and it would be much better without distracting auto-playing video.
The video should play then the user wants it to play. Is that really so hard to understand?
But you won't. Because the clips are 5 to 20 seconds long. So its faster to just wait for the loop than even to move your hand to the mouse.
How are you scrolling? When I’m browsing and reading my hand lives on the mouse. On mobile it’s even easier to click to play. In either case, clicking on a video takes less than 1 second.
I do agree that extremely short loops can be a different story, but 20 seconds is by far over that time for me. 5 seconds is around the threshold.
I’m sure this preference varies by person.
My hand lives either on the space bar, or the page-down button. Both of which are far more efficient at scrolling through pages of text.
Neither pgDown nor space bar scroll.
Perhaps its "meme culture" or Tik-Tock culture. But there's a style of super-short 5-second to 20-second video where looping makes far more sense than clicking.
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In either case, I've solicited feedback of this style in a variety of gaming forums from different communities. They mostly have had positive-experiences with tutorials / short videos written in this manner. Awesomenauts, Factorio, and Puyo Puyo. Three very different communities, three times they seemed to like the content and video/writing style of merged text + video.
Call it "Tumblr style", or "Tik-tok" style.
On your website your videos don't auto play for me on mobile, by the way, which I found convenient because it's tap on tap off. It's x-overflowing the videos though, which is inconvenient.
Of course they didn't. If they did, the site wouldn't work the way it works now.
It's just another example of "I know better than my users" attitude.
Funny, everyone likes the autoplaying GIFs in this other context, but they hate it here.