Agreed. Although the order i learned was title, figures, materials and methods. Sometimes there's useful stuff in the materials and methods, and sometimes that's where the bodies are buried.
At least in bio papers, the good ones make sure to give the most important method details in the legend itself so it's rare I have to refer the methods section. But yes, that does happen! Especially anything where they cure cancer in mice (the running joke is that you can also cure cancer in mice by stomping them)
