Info Dumping: Dialogue vs Description

[Steerpike]

I think thinly-veiled infodumps are more offensive than blatant concise passages where an author needs to inform a reader of background. A conversation between two characters where one is asking loads of questions while the other is telling them to hold on and let them finish their story might as well just be an author telling me to wait until they're done telling me stuff. I get edgy, impatient, and uninterested very quickly.

I agree 100%. I'd rather the author just throw in a paragraph or two here and there providing relevant information than create a scene with tortured dialogue where the characters are trying to explain it all.