Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Lots of paragraphs that start with “[person/thing] is [context/role]”. I wonder whether it’s actually human written, but they poorly integrated too many individual perspectives into the article. Building a narrative from fragments in this way takes a lot of skill to pull off, perhaps they were too ambitious (or too cautious — I’ve seen this pitfall when the writer is too tentative in making their own argument on a spicy topic)