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It feels ridiculous to see a 5-page paper with a 150-page appendix. Makes you question what is the paper.
I dunno, I kinda like the "breadth first" approach: abstract should basically tell you most of what you need, at a 30,000' level, but maybe not convice you. Main text should convince you. Appendix should tell you how to perform the experiment yourself.
I’m with you on that. My comment was more like sometimes the appendices seem to get out of hand. They probably contain entire papers there.