Hi beardyw, thanks for the feedback and for reading the piece. As I tried to communicate in the blog post, Mot Juste is not intended for rewriting your work but rather to retrieve specific words and idioms, and I specifically chose that sample sentence to illustrate this point. Rather than copy-paste Mot Juste's output, I select the idiom "cobble together". I encourage you to give Mot Juste a try the next time you write!

I apologise. I admit I was looking for errors which is unfair. Writing about English is a minefield where angels fear to tread (see what I did there).

Nice metaphor combo!