If someone started a blog where they give an approachable overview of all these papers, would that be helpful? Would such a blog be considered rude since many people would read the blog summary instead of the actual paper?
Do you have any example were the documentation available is only scientific or technical papers? I've been learning Haskell for a year now, and even though I've read some papers due to interest I've never felt like it was the only form of documentation.
I could think of others if I dedicated some time to it, but those come up fairly frequently.