I'm in favor of (2). Duplicated content doesn't make sense. Having a clear split between User Guide and numpy-tutorials makes sense to me. User Guide focus more on individual NumPy features and how to use them, while Tutorials are more application-focused and teach NumPy usage in the process.

My NumPy Docs page redesign proposal would change the main docs/sphinx front page, Getting Started and User Guide page. I'm also in favor 2). With sphinx tutorials page, I didn't include it in my redesign at first since there was so sparse and I wasn't sure how to/if needed to arrange 2 items.

With 2), the main docs/sphinx pages would still act as the first entryway, and even if a user ultimately needs numpy-tutorials, the redesign will help them get there.

Redesigned Docs front page:

• Getting Started
• User Guide
• API Reference
• Contributor's Guide

This flow could like look like this: Docs front page -> User Guide page -> Tutorials, which would link to numpy-tutorials.

Tutorials could be linked from multiple pages:
Docs front page -> Getting Started -> Tutorials

Tutorials could also be linked on the front page, but I think adding more categories brings up the re-occurring issue of similar sounding words for different concepts, which may be confusing.

Redesigned Docs front page:

• Getting Started
• User Guide
• API Reference
• Tutorials
• Contributor's Guide

Maybe the description text under the Tutorials heading here could be
Tutorials
Step-by-step tutorials written as Jupyter notebooks. These notebooks can be launched in Binder, so you can interact with the examples as you follow along.

This is getting long, so perhaps a visual prototype of what I'm talking about would help, haha.

PR above has my proposal for now. Once the new landing page is here, we can reorganize if needed. Thanks!