+1. I do a lot of videos, especially now that COVID has put the kibosh on in-person conferences and everything is pre-recorded. I usually need 3 takes to do a decent talk recording and that assumes substantial prep to lay out the story line. Anything less is a meandering mess.
Wonderful documentation is hard to beat from my learning perspective, but I find that level of quality is more rare.
Therefore, I learn better by watching something materialize on video at ~3x speed and often without any speaking.
I think it simply boils down to my level of trust that this person didn’t accidentally omit anything from their article or blog post or whatever and what I see on the screen is what I get. Now, that doesn’t fix when tools change etc, but videos instill a higher level of trust that, if I follow these steps, I will produce this output.
It's way easier just to write a decent README.md.