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I have the opposite opinion. Most often, I'm looking for documentation that gets to the point. Just give me a straight answer so I can minimize time I spend reading docs and maximize time I spend using the thing. Tutorials tend to be annoying to read because there's a lot of information unrelated to the topic (setup, advice for beginner programmers) and important information that is missing because the tutorial inevitably chooses one use case and ignores the others.

If I had to pick, I'd rather a dev tell instead of teach. Other people will inevitably write their "how to do x in y" medium articles anyway. These days you can even get an LLM to write it for you, if there's docs that "tell".



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