What John said. As the allowable length of articles shrank, the writer was forced to leave out more and more background material and explanations. If you read some of Ken Waters work, you'll see what I mean. He sometimes spent 2,000 words describing his methodology for a given cartridge test. That's before he got into his results, which were just as extensively documented.
Today, what the reader gets is hardly more than an executive summary. Often, that doesn't do the subject justice at all.
I'm glad to be out of it, frankly.
Just when you thought you were out, they will drag you back in!!!