The inverted pyramid principle is like a cold shower: it feels harsh at first but is overall good for your fitness as a writer, as it requires you to 1) understand your own main idea and distil it, which is not always easy if you are not writing a factual news story, and 2) not indulge and get to that distillation immediately, allowing the reader to stop whenever they reach the level of detail they want, which may not jive well with a “free” ad-based publication model but is absolutely reasonable in a subscription-based model (which is, I suppose, where the rule originated).

It is among the few useful things I learned at the university.