My claim isnt that wittengstein's ideas can be explained to a 6 year old or are simple or that he is overrated. My claim is that blog author's perception of wi

My claim isnt that wittengstein's ideas can be explained to a 6 year old or are simple or that he is overrated. My claim is that blog author's perception of wittengstein is shaped by how wittengstein wrote. Which is a style that was common for philosophers of the time. The style of expression has little to do with the difficulty of the idea. I regularly read/write scientific papers that would be very hard to meaningfully express to a 6 year old. However, good modern papers do use a direct style with few independent clauses and indexical references. This was not the prevalent style for wittgenstein or even modern continental philosophy. Tldr, writing style matters and can confuse people independent of idea complexity. Edit: more thought, in physics (and other math heavy field) we often rename sub-expressions with variable names to make formulas written subsequently shorter and more comprehensible. This means that we often write extra lines of text simply to segment out different concepts so no one line is too hard to understand/too long. This makes it easier to understand the "important" parts.