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> I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.

Every 4 or 5 years everyone celebrates terse writing like it's new.

FTFY.

Writers periodically resurrect brevity.

Concise is better than brief.

Write right.

I feel like every 4 or 5 comments, someone comments as if they have some new insight ;)

Seriously though, this is a pretty useful tool, especially for people who are new at writing.

I have seen almost this exact same thing like a decade ago.

No, people celebrate terse writing fairly non-stop. It may only intersect with your awareness every 4-5 years, but its not like it goes away in between.

Those writers who don't appreciate terse writing are too busy writing to celebrate.

I don't think this is presenting terse writing as a new insight. The innovation here is (if I'm understanding it correctly) using a grammar parser to identify some fairly complex criteria (e.g. avoiding left-branching sentences).

When you become older, everything fits this pattern, which makes day to day living tiresome.

There are trends in writing like in everything else, I guess.