When you strip away some of the more pretentious language, this article isn't really saying anything that extraordinary. If you just swap the phrase "information" with "content", i.e. "addiction to useless content", it becomes clear that the article is really just talking about the dangers of doomscrolling.

At best, it's a useful reminder that doomscrolling happens not only on Instagram and YouTube, but also on "respectable" sites like the NYT, Hacker News, and Wikipedia, and that does resonate with me. But I don't see anything else that the author is really adding to the large corpus of discussion on doomscrolling and Internet addiciton.