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You aren't wrong. But, this format is taking over and I hate having to watch a video for information that I can parse easier when it's text based. Everytime I've looked for schematics and a teardown of a laptop or other hardware all I find is videos that I have to scrub through looking for exactly what I need.
Yup. Paraphrasing an old IT saying, you cannot grep Youtube videos.
...unless the videos have captions, in which case you absolutely can.
View the transcript, search for something, click what you found and boom: You're at that precise moment in the video.
For literal grep, use something like NewPipe to download the subtitle file.
Today I was looking up how to do something in a game I'm playing, there were some videos about it, usual formula starting with "Sup guys!", intros, ads for the channel, and fluff, "remember to press like", oh and a bunch of videos that may or may not contain the answer.
The answer could be written in 5 words, basically what key to press.
The days of text based walk throughs are sadly behind us.
Once upon a time, I totally would have agreed with you. But I have increasingly severe Memory and Cognitive Impairment that now makes comprehending text based instructive really difficult. I can however pick up demonstrated instructions very easily which means I'm now mostly reliant on these sorts of videos.
So while it may be annoying or not useful to you, it's essential to folks like me.
Did you not read the first sentence I wrote?
There is a place for all kinds of media for people to digest. My problem is with there not being text versions of most things anymore especially for those of us who aren't actually looking to learn something new, we just want to know how many and locations of screws to take a laptop apart so we can fix it. Or which settings screen on a routers firmware does a specific thing. These days I have to watch someone go through the entire tear down or all of the settings and watch carefully for what I'm looking for.
For the record I went to a Montessori school and my mother taught it for decades. I am aware and open to various ways to learn new things.