Comment by trinix912

It's usually not just one chapter but the style of the entire book. Whenever something relatively advanced comes up it's just briefly mentioned and skipped over to the next topic, which once again starts by explaining the basics that would be better suited for a beginner level book.

I find it quite difficult to find quality programming books that actually deal with the details and waste no pages explaining the basics that can be found in literally any other book about a specific language/technology.

When it was mentioned that the publisher demanded the book be "dumbed down" it wasn't a surprise to me at all. I also think it's hurting sales of programming/SWE books at large as beginners are more likely to just use up-to-date Internet tutorials than books, but those more experienced who would benefit from in-depth books can only find the dumbed-down ones.