The best blogs however only show you maybe 1-5 articles with great design, and it actually causes me to read more.
So from the UI/UX perspective, why do companies continue to make reading harder? Is there some psychology behind it?
What happens when there is more Content than there are Eyeballs or Time to consume it all? Or economically what happens when Supply massively overshoots Demand? People who design UX/UI aren't economists they are just reacting to an environment, dominated by a few companies all fighting tooth and nail over a finite non growing pool of Attention. Anyone that makes a move is automatically copied by everyone else out of sheer FOMO.
So we get the tooth aisle - hundreds of different toothpastes - but really a few companies that have divided up the entire market and shit scared of loosing ground so they copy each other furiously constantly adding more and more options just cause the other guy did so - https://metropolismag.com/programs/the-toothpaste-aisle
With that illusion of engagement and retention, they can convince someone to pay them to put ads and shit throughout and if they're lucky earn enough to keep playing.
I’ve built content apps and learned this the hard way. Clean design feels good, but it doesn’t always boost the right metrics.
Now I stick to RSS, newsletters, and read-it-later tools like Matter, way less noise, and I read more.
alternatively, there may be 50 petty feifdoms each with it's own heirarchy and vested interests to defend and an overall manager for such a product might have no power to rein it in.