I find I bounce off a lot of articles now because if there's a person in there, they absolutely ran it through a program to give it that opaque "first year trying to write in academicese" feel. And I just can't understand it without putting way more effort than I care to.

The writing course new employees had to take at Bell Labs emphasized "stop writing like a grad student - write like a journalist. Complex stuff gets simpler language. Important points up top, so your reader can decide how much they want to read."