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I suppose it also depends on the formatting (and situation, e.g. sometimes the artificiality is not concealed and the data is useful,b but that's a different topic). In the past I'd often squeeze out a wall of text with nothing but commas and periods to soften the single-paragraph coprolite of a thought; this usually killed the discussion. Too many arguments, too many words, too hard to skim through, getting distracted and means it's harder to find where you'd stopped etc.
Spacing things out and spicing them up with uncommon (for internet conversations) punctuation marks makes them much more presentable and easily digestible. People still often skip those though.
These past couple of years, however, they are also quick to dismiss formatted posts as bots. Pseuds see an EM dash and go "yup, that's chatgpt, alright" as if banging the arcane combo on the numpad is something a mortal wouldn't bother with. Maybe they're at least partially right though, that's just wasting too much time, energy and lifeforce chatting with internet strangers instead of doing something more productive like drunk dancing in a nightclub.
Perhaps the era of long forum-like posts is now behind us for good.