No, this site is awful.
You read this sentence:
>This website shows what happened in between.
And immediately get shown an ad "how to build a backend framework from the wire up".
The first thing you think to yourself is how does building a backend relate to a coffeeshop click? Why would you even have to click in a coffee shop in the first place? If you really insist on product placement, why not explain how your order page works instead?
"the rules of this page" is a terrible wall of text that expects you to read carefully and memorize instead of using the scroll mechanism itself to show the clock in the center of the screen and then move it with a fluid animation to the top, so you notice it is there. Same problem problem with the time stop. You have to introduce the time stop mechanic as you go.
"the cast" is terrible yet again, you've primed me to expect the clock to start and I scroll through the request and nothing happens??? Why emphasize the infrastructure at the end with text? Why are there six requests? You only need one HTTP request/reply and TCP does not have the concept of requests. The packet round trips created by TCP/TLS handshakes do not count as multiple requests. This explainer feels wrong from a technical perspective already .
Then there is the fact that the text columns are incredibly thin with heavy vertical separation, there's an incredible waste of horizontal and vertical space to the point where you hardly get to read anything at all. You can divide the screen into 9 rectangles and only one of those is used. 90% of the screen is empty.
It also keeps jumping from single column, to double column to single double column (yes) and left bound text.
Not only does it not hook me, I'm having a hard time believing that the creator of this actually looked at the output or iterated on it at all.