For what it's worth, the distance of time isn't the only thing that makes Kant difficult to read. There's also the distance of language - translation is almost

For what it's worth, the distance of time isn't the only thing that makes Kant difficult to read. There's also the distance of language - translation is almost inevitably going to blur the original lines of the original (I've heard it said, not of Kant but of Heidegger, that it's easier to learn German and read Sein und Zeit than it is to read Being and Time). And to make matters worse, Kant has always been criticized as a notoriously poor writer, even by his contemporaries. (And there's the underlying complexity of his thought, of course.)