First, shallow dismissals are against HN guidelines, for a good reason.
And I fail to make the connection. This content-heavy but minimal design is not unique.
Text inside a centered element, text-heavy but also packed with images, exists from the times of formatinng websites with `<table>` tags in DreamWeaver or Microsoft Frontpage 98.
If you're talking about the highly detailed article, can we not gatekeep this? I want more of that on the internet, not less.