the next screen has such oddities as this:
`$ yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w"`

after attempting and failing to parse this DSL I read on a bit further:

again, the ENTIRE FIRST SCREEN is useless. and I have to keep scrolling back and forth on my little phone screen with the flashing lights and loud music and also tabbing back and forth to manage the ongoing downloads.

these options, I will save you the reading, are all about different ways to download the best video. one for the worst video but I don't want that either!

eventually I find "--format" which tells me to go to """see "FORMAT SELECTION" for more details""". alright, I can do that.

the entire first screen of text is useless. immediately after this first screen is a link saying "tl;dr navigate me to examples." very helpful. let's look at these examples.

I pip install yt-dlp, and open the README. to set the scene, there's extremely loud music going, it's dark, there's flashing lights, someone is getting a tattoo a bit behind me. I'm on mobile data and it's not great. I feel under a lot of pressure to get these clips downloaded fast! I need to set the resolution to 720p. that's it. this should be simple.

Here's what I see: