Somehow, making something simple ornate and complicated neither appeals to me as a main story point nor as a writing style. I just find it really grating.
Agree 100%. It's heavy-handed in the way that bible fables are heavy-handed. Crisp prose doesn't imply dull prose.
It also channels worst kind of self-indulgent Haskell type-level programming that I've see in real-world projects. That isn't funny when you have to rip out the guts of the system because the head developer left for an even better Haskell gig.
