I would go further and say that many academics hide their banal or confused ideas behind overcomplex language. They learn to write that way by reading all those

I would go further and say that many academics hide their banal or confused ideas behind overcomplex language. They learn to write that way by reading all those awfully written texts and imitating them. But Chomsky is not like that - he usually has something insightful to say expresses it plainly.