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I think this is a problem with any highly specialized or technical topic. I vaguely recollected what wayland was, but I didn't know why I would care about it and ended up doing similar googling before realizing this news will not matter to me outside of a general technical curiosity.

I encounter the same thing when dealing with code reviews as well - people love to document the WHAT or HOW of things, but rarely if ever consider talking about WHY it matters, or WHO it matters too.

To borrow from a favourite corpo speak: answer the "so what" for the reader to make something actually useful to more people.



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