I hate videos. I’d rather read a book with 500 pages than watch a video about anything. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever watched a technical video in my whole life.

If it’s a YouTube video, it probably has been made to monetise, not to share tech material. So I usually avoid YouTube, because most of the time it’s not worth it.

Demo videos are not “documentation.” They are “demos.”

If you want someone to repeat your steps, it should be code or CLI commands. You can write more descriptive text, but as soon as you reference pictures to show something, you’re introducing ambiguity that text/code can avoid.

UIs change faster than videos and screenshots, as you said, can’t be searched, and are generally less accessible than text.

The source files for documentation should also live side-by-side with the code in the repo. As soon as it goes anywhere else, it immediately goes out of date.

I prefer written articles

Well, obvious reason: you can’t edit an outdated video with easy effort. But with text you can.

But for a tech talk or demo, I’d still prefer a video than written text.

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Can’t ctrl+f a video. People don’t often have good presenting skills, talk slowly or with defects. Text is much easier to navigate, faster to read.

Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”