I think it's more interesting that this poorly-worded "riddle" managed to find its way onto wikipedia:

A section titled "The Language Paradox" was removed on October 2:

> Careful wording must be used to ensure that the "paradox" is correct.

With the explanation: "This is 100% original research, which as noted contains errors"

So the only thing that makes the "paradox" interesting is that it's badly worded, but any commentary to that effect is original research, so in the end we're just left with a fairly unremarkable riddle on Wikipedia and grumpy people like myself complaining about it.

Easier to visualize if you just plot it.

Start with total mass is 100 kg, and 99 kg water, and 1 kg dry. Let x be the kg of water removed. Then the ratio of water to total mass is

(99 - x)/(100 - x) Plot: https://imgur.com/a/oDaKLVo

It's intuitive that until x becomes pretty large, there is negligible effect on the ratio.

there's no paradox, just a misunderstanding.

This sounds less like a paradox and more like a simple high school algebra problem to me.

A more relatable example to me is with chocolate bars. A 85% chocolate has 3 times more sugar than a 95% chocolate. I wonder the world-wide impact in people health if they advertised the ratio in terms of sugar instead of cacao.

How about "Potato Puzzler", do we like that one better?

Why are you assuming that leaving potatoes out overnight would change them from 99% water to 98%? Is your house directly adjacent to an active volcano? Why would you even measure that?