he easiest way to make exposition not feel like exposition is to make it an argument

seriously people info-dumping is the eternal problem, especially in fantasy where you have a whole world to explain. and the usual advice is "weave it in naturally" which is useless because nobody tells you HOW here's the actual move (from a self proclaimed semi-pro) put the information inside a disagreement when two characters are arguing about something, you can deliver enormous amounts of backstory and worldbuilding and the reader will eat it up, because they're not reading exposition cause you’re narrating a conflict. one character says the old king was a tyrant. the other snaps that he held the realm together for forty years. now you've delivered the political history of your world and it doesn't feel like a lecture because there's heat in it, two people who care about this are pushing against each other compare that to a paragraph calmly explaining the old king's reign. dead on the page. the same facts, inside a fight, are alive, because the reader is tracking the tension between the people, and the information comes in as ammunition rather than as a textbook when you've got a chunk of world to convey and it's sitting there like a brick, find two characters who'd disagree about it and let them go at each other. exposition delivered as conflict stops being exposition. it becomes scene voila!