IMO, articles should include TLDRs, but shouldn’t just be TLDRs. You have a short, high-context, high-trust summary. Then you write a longer article for people who don’t have all the necessary background to understand your summary, or don’t immediately trust that your summary is correct.
As a silly example, if you did an experiment to determine the acceleration due to gravity, your TLDR could simply be, “The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.” And for many readers, that’s all they need to know. But you should definitely also explain your methodology and present the data from your experiment.
If your article could be substituted with a TLDR, then just write that in the first place.
IMO, articles should include TLDRs, but shouldn’t just be TLDRs. You have a short, high-context, high-trust summary. Then you write a longer article for people who don’t have all the necessary background to understand your summary, or don’t immediately trust that your summary is correct.
As a silly example, if you did an experiment to determine the acceleration due to gravity, your TLDR could simply be, “The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.” And for many readers, that’s all they need to know. But you should definitely also explain your methodology and present the data from your experiment.