Learn English – Stick through? or something else

It's an unusual construction, but I think what the writer means is to draw an analogy with a machine that is seized or clogged with 'goo'. It is a strongly metaphorical statement which is supposed to communicate the idea that popular writing is unnecessarily complicated (or constrained, or obfuscated) with too many personal anecdotes, and therefore doesn't fulfil its primary purpose, which is to educate or inform.

In my office we call this a proximity fix, as the only thing necessary to fix the issue is to be near it: we stand behind the user and everything magically works. These days we can remotely control workstations, but still the fault disappears just by the act of attempting to observe it.

They are certainly the easiest tickets to fix.