With that said, yes, the difference is I KNOW claude will read my docs, especially if I shove it into the context and therefore, I KNOW I'm getting ROI on that work.
As someone who has written docs for years I have spent too many hours writing docs that my colleagues proceed to just ignore and ask me to explain verbally. Its a culture thing if people don't have a natural instinct to read docs and a culture of documentation and asking others to read the docs INSTEAD of bothering the human.
Also, there may be something to the theory that people don't learn well from docs as tutorial. I find 10x faster return when I make a video for people or tutor them through something rather than sending them a link and asking them to read it. Often this is because good docs are disciplined and try to answer the one question they were asked. Which is great, untill you realize most are missing necessary background so now you're in a bind. Do you document foundations that are covered in other places? Or do you cover them in your own words making 10x more work for questionable value? Its not an easy question