100% agree with this. What makes me really scratch my head is that I talk to people regularly who prefer this! If I have to watch a video to answer my question, I'll just figure it out some other way.
So they expect me to watch a commercial and 3 minutes of video, when all they had to convey was a very concise point like "democrats offered to make 90% of the requested cuts, and the other side is shutting down the government over the last ten." But I "absolutely" must watch the video, with no summary of the point because "[my congresscritter hero] totally proves you wrong".
... and have the full support of the other reddit posters. F--- that.
Of course, if the answer to something is on Wikipedia, it's a win. But Wikipedia isn't designed to be an encyclopedia of all human knowledge (sadly).
First-order:
* At a computer ==> Text * Commuting ==> Audio/video
Second-order depends on things like type of content, cognitive load, etc.
I agree with the frustration, but we've got a system now that rewards video makers for this stuff, and doesn't reward people posting this information in text format.