My adblocker blocks the whole domain, so I am also waiting for someone to post a summary.

It's because Intercom is sometimes classified as marketing software. Unfortunately their blog is hosted on their domain which is blacklisted by most adblockers.

If you're using Firefox, reader view works well (the note paper icon towards the right side of the url bar).

Annoying though it is, it's only on the title; the article text is readable.

And the <hr> elements between sections.

I also find that type of animation really annoying, even if it didn’t cause problems due to its high resource demand.

As a rule of thumb, I’d say animations should only be used for short-term things. Eternal animations will make a substantial fraction of people’s devices heat up, have fans speed up, &c. I think it is probably most.

And in the case of this article, animations don’t even fit with the art direction which is otherwise delightful.

The console browser w3m does fine. Others should work similarly well.