Two things.

First, that's just a badly written recipe then. In my experience, no matter how complicated a dish is, it can all fit on a single A4 page at 11pt, maximum two pages.
A recipe shouldn't say:
"Take a spoon and gently stir the cream for a 2 minutes till it gets a nice and foamy, soft white texture like a cloud on a hot summer day."
It should say:
"Stirr all the cream until it thickens and sticks to spoon when held upside down."
That contains all the information you need. What ingredients, how much of it, what to do, and what the result is. Most importantly, they shouldn't mention time, that's where people get hung up on and screw up the dish. The pan you use for 15 minutes on your stove with your chosen ingredients isn't the same as theirs. Especially water content in ingredients can massively change the timing.

Second, a recipe should also assume some knowledge about basic terminology like seared, baked, glazed, steamed, whipped, stirred, etc. They shouldn't be described in the recipe themselves. If that's not familiar, video recipes are definetly the better medium to teach recipes. If you watch enough of them, it will be pretty much clear what everything means.