It does depend on the genre to a degree, but just info-dumping description does become tedious. I mean, I love LotR, but 3 pages describing trees really pushed the friendship level.
Besides, readers are not stupid. A lot of readers want to build these worlds on their own. I know sometimes a film of a book (while 99.9% are not as good as the book anyway) can disappoint me if the characters do not look like the way I imagined them in my head.
I like to use relevant physical descriptions; extraneous stuff just bogs a story down.
Without knowing what it was called, I have used Hemingway's Iceberg for description and world-building for years. I think that is best. Have your info there; only include what is absolutely needed.
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