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The main issue is that all the problems he encounters are typically frontloaded and he has to explain tons of things at the start that need to be explained for context, otherwise he's going to be randomly stopping in the middle of basic things to explain how stuff works. Him listing what stats do can be argued as padding, but at the same time him explaining what can be used and what can't is also important for a run where half the stats aren't going to be used, will barely contribute, or can't contribute outside of glitches.
Once he gets past the frontloaded part then he focuses on the main issues presented in the run while giving a humorous summary of the story. I can get where you're coming from because the videos truly are frontloaded, and in FF4's case he has two separate playthroughs he's jumping back and forth between, but I would argue the way he uses them are necessary to at least get the information you need across. That example with the boss in FF4 he needed Reflect for and the comparison between the magic run and the no magic run is a good example of "Padding without padding" because it presents all the issues, how he overcame them, and then how he will have to properly overcome them since he was just showing you the general strategy.
