I agree with all of that, except that I wouldn’t call it “boilerplate”, if it is clarifying or emphasizing a point to some target group.

Might be that I’m just very intolerant to boilerplate as a reader. I’m part of the younger generations with short attention spans and tons of authors will artificially pad their online articles, because more time spent reading useless words means more time spent potentially looking at ads, which means more money for them.

So, I think, what I’m really arguing is: Fuck the whole monetisation of attention.