While there is plenty of valid criticism, the author is clearly doing their best to pump the article up with complex vernacular and sentence structure to dazzle

While there is plenty of valid criticism, the author is clearly doing their best to pump the article up with complex vernacular and sentence structure to dazzle the reader, without lending much to clarity, brevity, or understanding: “The worst reactionary prose, on the other hand, is often the precise inverse, its most recognizable hallmark being the needless adornment of extremely banal thoughts or truisms with pompous verbiage designed to make them sound smart.” This seems to apply to this article?