You're right
Make GameFAQs great again. Semi serious
The guides are sometimes so badly written you want a video anyway (or a screenshot), but ctrl+f is so much better than having to scrub through a video.
I think the last time I pulled up a gamefaq from GameFAQs was probably near the end of the 2000s, and not to say some are crummy, but if you kinda skim em and see how the person has organized it, you can tell if it's worth your time or not.
Though I guess yeah for videogame things that have gotten me stuck in the last 5 years I probably looked up a youtube let's/longplay where half of the comments are "oh my god, that's how you do it bla bla L.O.L. ...".
Actually, now that I think about for my two FEZ playthroughs I used some written/screenshot guides, but it was not GameFAQs. I'm not sure what the site was. I've never bumped into it for any other game when doing a quick google search to help me with other games. Maybe it was something like a stackxchange for games or something. Like for the fox jumped over the lazy dog thingy. Which A. Fuck you to all non-English speakers lol. B. I never learned that and I spent most of my grade school in well funded American public schools.
edit: hmm looking at Google I can't find the website that kept popping up for me back in my FEZ days. Eh whatever. It was cool though as you could tell that the community at that time was trying to solve the problems along with the picture explanations there. Like the super obtuse ones that demand you are some loser computer nerd.
edit2: eh, maybe it was this site:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/63197/3-heart-cube-pieces-what-next . Layouts and shit change after 8 years after all and my memory can be misremembering stuff too.
