Fuck reductive metrics. Write for your audience. In the world of patents, multi-hundred word sentences are normal. There are regulatory reasons for that. Yes,

Fuck reductive metrics. Write for your audience. In the world of patents, multi-hundred word sentences are normal. There are regulatory reasons for that. Yes, patents are inaccessible, which suits the purposes of the people who write them. This generalizes to the worlds of law and academic writing. Besides all that, a sentence with many words in it may suit poets. I have written very long sentences specifically to create a puzzle for my readers; I have done so specifically to convey a sense of complexity as a rhetorical technique; I do so in the service of my project, whatever that is.