>>5119 (OP)> Great writers can do this with only a few lines. Bad writers, on the other hand, cannot so they compensate by adding layers and layers irrelevant "depth" to make them seem lifelike when they're really not.Well, quite often it's but trendy filler or pseudo-intellectual shibboleths. See also
Aragorn Never Had an Identity Crisis.
But then, much the same can be said about great many other things. No tool makes good writing on its own. It's just that whatever becomes fashionable ends up the most annoying due to repetition. Which is how things stop being fashionable, of course.