He is the most successful manager of his generation. He is also the most skilled press operator in the league.
Guardiola's press conferences are not information events. They are management events. He uses them to shape narratives around his players, to deflect from internal issues, to praise opposition coaches in ways that pressure his own squad, to complain about fixture congestion in ways that influence broadcast scheduling.
The European press largely lets him do this. The reason is that he provides good copy. He gives quotable lines. He develops themes that fill columns. He is, from a journalistic content perspective, generous in a way most elite managers are not.
The cost of this generosity is that the press becomes a participant in his strategic communication rather than a check on it. When Guardiola declares that the fixture schedule is going to ruin a player, the press repeats it. The repetition becomes pressure on the schedulers. The schedulers respond. The cycle benefits Guardiola.
This is not a criticism of Guardiola. He is doing what an elite manager should do. It is a criticism of the press, which has accepted the role of stenographer in exchange for content.
A more critical press would interrogate the framings. The framings would still be useful. The press would also be doing journalism, not just transcription. The current arrangement gives one side of the relationship most of the leverage. The other side accepts the trade.