Honestly, I find wall of text macro's to be annoying, but not walls of text written out (or at least spread out decently if in macro). Because when you get so much text all of a sudden to read that you have to enlarge your chat box to full size just to read the start of it, then it feels like it's a race to finish reading it as quickly as possible so everyone can get started.

But if you write it out or spread out the macro into decently sized steps, people can read along and actually take in what you said while you are writing the next part. To me, this is a world of difference. I can take my time to read what you write vs I feel like I have to skim and say "got it" as quickly as possible so as not to hold up the entire party.