> PrinPDFs are difficult to browse, impossible to read on a phone, uncomfortable to read on a tablet, hostile to screen readers, impractical to search engines, and the list goes on. It's just a terrible format, unless you're trying to print things on paper. ting things is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but that's really not the main use case we should be optimizing for.

The printed page is the optimal format for consuming a thesis or paper, so it absolutely makes sense to optimize for that, rather than dilettante browsing on a phone.