Maybe they are good writers and this guy has a very peculiar sense of what is good writing? His essay didn't fill be with awe. He's not complaining about result

Maybe they are good writers and this guy has a very peculiar sense of what is good writing? His essay didn't fill be with awe. He's not complaining about results. He's dumping on students because he doesn't like how they write. Could there be a more arbitrary metric? I don't think so.