I find man pages to be useful when I’m already familiar with the command or topic. For long man pages, I usually get on fine by `grep`ing for relevant key-words.

I agree that they are daunting and not so helpful for users who are new to the command or topic. They usually lack a quick-start guide with examples that give the user a starting point to build upon.

Anyhow, after hearing about `tldr` for close to a decade, your comment inspired me to install it. When I tried running `tldr curl`, I was delighted to learn something new and useful:

    # Resolve a hostname to a custom IP address, with verbose output (similar to editing the /etc/hosts file for custom DNS resolution):
    curl --verbose --resolve example.com:80:127.0.0.1 http://example.com