I don’t have any idea on how most people feel, but my personal experience is that detail is very helpful for my learning process. I’m not one of those guys that easily figures things out by feel alone, but I seem to benefit from more information, which in turn affects on what I try to play around with in order to achieve the feeling of smoothness.
If the reverse dart thrower motions would just have been an animation and how to force the motion to see how if it works for you, as written in the first post, I would probably have had little success with RDT.
For me RDT has taken quite a lot of trial and error, and a crucial part has been the pick grip. Without details on the pick grip and especially curling the fingers to achieve the zero degree pickslant, I would have had a very difficult time proceeding with RDT.
I checked that the length of the videos on RDT is between 3 and 14 minutes. I think they are very short and easily digestable pieces of information.
Actually I wish that there would be more information on RDT. Among these are tracking and picking depth. I know tracking is one of those things that may (!) benefit from not being overanalyzed, but as I stated earlier, I like to have options that I can play around with in order to achieve smoothness. For RDT tracking these have been for me elbow and wrist motion. But both of these options will in turn have an effect on what the angle of edge picking is, complicating things further.
Another thing that could be expanded on with the RDT tutorials would be how picking on different strings may have an effect on the position of the picking hand. What I mean by this is that for me the most difficult strings to pick with RDT have been the lower strings and part of this seems to be the lack of support on the small bone of my wrist on the guitar saddle. This is complicated further by changes in support due to tracking. Players like Andy Wood seem to actually have a noticeably different hand position when playing on the lower strings. Examples of players using the techniques help me as I encounter problems that need to be solved in my own playing.
As a great man once said “How can less be more? That is impossible. More is more.”