A lot of the tutorials out there is crap. There several reasons for that:
- lack of creativity (too many people copy the ideas of others)
- lack of dedication (few take the time to write more than just a single "figure it out on your own" page)
- sites like Good-Tutorials, Pixel2Life, Tutorialized have become a breeding ground for bad tutorials. The reason is because these sites seem to approve too many poor tutorials, tutorials that are often written with one purpose; to get traffic and as a result of that have income.
- lack of skills (everyone seems to call himself a professional graphic designer/artist nowadays)
You might say "but hey, these tutorials are free".
Please, don't feel sorry with authors; they often make good many with advertising on their crappy tutorials.