Research papers are hard to read because:

• they contain a lot of jargon
• the format is unnecessarily complex
• they are not written with storytelling principles in mind
• you can miss the most important info because of all the other fluff

Research papers are hard to find because:

• it takes expertise to read through them which creates this barrier to entry for someone who might want to curate them
• there is not one well known aggregator of research papers where you’d go to read the best ones
• the world is in 2024, but the current sites like PubMed, Google Scholar, and others still have a UI/UX from 1990s