The second sentence: "There are various reasons behind these disappointments, but a common blotch they all bear is a flagrant, disciplined indifference from their artists — young and old, established and underground — toward reflection and refinement" is not a measured critique of the decaying standards in linguistic correctness. He's not pleading with his readers. Saying people have a "disciplined indifference towards reflection" (calling them idiots) because they are not stylizing their art using formal methods he considers optimal, a critique as old as the English language, is classic literary rage bait.

BTW, saying anything is peak 2026, is peak mid-2020s.