As a guy who’s aware of lisp ways, I found first few paragraphs absolutely useful for establishing context and hinting at what’s next, at the same time retaining my attention. TFA is fine, just not everyone is its audience.

If it was “look, shktshfdthjkl\n\nbhhj, so cool”, it would signal rocket rainbow unicorn and lose me at that. IMO we need more properly structured non-SV prose like this in tech, not less.