Maybe I’m just too dense, but I had that impression about this essay too.
It’s just that I was reading and reading and reading it, and at some point it started to resemble a twitch streamer that spends about an hour reading patch notes to a game while peppering every sentence with ahhhs, ummmms and well maybeeeeeees without culminating in anything.
Now on the 47th level of reactions of reactions is me reacting to it.