You can search a whole info file just as quickly as a man page, and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?). I'll admit that whenever in man or info, I will generally go straight to the examples section because that's just how my brain works, but at that point I appreciate that info files aren't stingy with detail.
> You can search a whole info file just as quickly as a man page
It's possible that I just don't know how to use info. I always end up in the wrong place. That does not happen with man.
> and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go
How?
> (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?)
No, because the options are indented and inserting a few spaces before the hyphen in search string eliminates virtually all in-text references. Conventionally, the options are alpha-sorted too. In info pages, I end up wondering which section the option I want might be covered in.
> How?
I in Emacs info-mode. The prompt also has autocompletion.
`info x | less` gives you a better info browser than info
To me, much like code and math, the art of writing good documentation is all about finding a way to make it short and simple (but still correct and complete).