[Solution] Puzzle Design

This puzzle consists almost entirely of irrelevant material. The text references this, and the leftmost column of letters spells out THE WORDS ARE USELESS. This suggests that solvers must look elsewhere for their puzzle.

The trick is the dashed line directly under the header. It is Morse code reading

-- .. -.-. .-. --- .--. .-. .. -. - . -.. —  .. ... — - .... . — .- -. ... .-- . .-. 

Treating the long dashes as word breaks, this spells out MICROPRINTED IS THE ANSWER, so the answer is MICROPRINTED.

I would not claim that this is a good puzzle. However, I do think it is sometimes important for puzzles to break us out of our usual comfort zones and force our brains to look at things in new ways.

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