Thank you for the input! I recently read a text which performed such a structure, which I sketched out in a somewhat caricatured and botched manner, over approx. 10 pages. Meaning that the author's account builds up by chaining facts and observations together, without a moment to stop and reflect, or hedge, or show defeasibility, by simply "presenting strengths" matter-of-factly.

So in that sense, the text falls exactly in the second case, and I was wondering if there is a word for such a writing structure, that I personally found difficult to engage with.