In my limited experience, manpages give you a wall of text when 9/10 times you just want a oneliner example of how to do something. Web resources generally address the lack of real world examples in manpages.
Then you use your pager's search functionality and go to the EXAMPLES section. If there is no EXAMPLES section, that's not the fault of the format, but of the author. Presumably, the same author would be equally good (or bad) at providing examples no matter if the target format was a man page or a web page.
