reading and listening at the same time is just double the pain

People say to listen while reading to acquire Japanese faster. Honestly, I tried doing both today and my brain just melted. I'm already on my fourth Anki reset this year and I can barely read a tweet, let alone process audio at the same time. Why do we even try? It just feels like double the exhaustion for zero progress. Is anyone actually succeeding with this or are we all just pretending?