I sympathize enormously. There is something more thoughtful and challenging about a very long sentence, like you get in philosophy books from the 17th century,

I sympathize enormously. There is something more thoughtful and challenging about a very long sentence, like you get in philosophy books from the 17th century, or a newspaper article from the 1800's. The one thing that is perhaps depressing, but also a law, is that languages tend to simplify over time. So it's frustrating when people write things like, "He be upset about ... " or "The client's ask here is ..." but both are grammatical simplifications. Yes, they have a grammatical historical context, but simplifications nonetheless. English used to have a much more complex grammar, where you needed to inflect (if that is the right term) not just the verb but also the pronoun, direct object, etc. like modern Russian and some aspects of German. There are some interesting linguistics channels on YouTube that I find quite appealing. One is Simon Roper who studies Old English among other languages, NativLang which is more into historical linguistics and presents it in a pop way, and Langfocus which is more comparative linguistics.