I thought it was an excessive number of notes too at first, and balked at the scrolling. And then I came up with a solution that's almost as good as if the notes were hyperlinked, and now I'm kicking myself a little bit for not thinking of this sooner:

Open the article in a new tab next to this one. Scroll down to the footnotes in the new tab and stay with the main text in the old one.

Hopefully this will save one or two people some time and annoyance when faced with similarly noted text.