IMO there has been a growing undercurrent, in online discussions forums, of disdain for writing and authors who aren’t well-established as authority figures or known experts in their field. Tone and word choice is narrowing into a conversational style, and anyone “straying from the pack” sticks out like a sore thumb in online boards.
Anything sarcastic or playful can be perceived as insincere.
I’d be happy to read more of your thoughts—you should keep writing.
You should just leave it at "people like different things" instead of making claims about why people don't like something (especially something that you like).
Because now you invite more negativity (on top of the original negativity and now yours) as people who didn't like their writing may now want to defend themself because they just didn't like the style and aren't part of some "growing undercurrent" who can't appreciate his brilliance because he's not "well-established nor a known expert".
Maybe they just think the writing is overwrought like when you outgrow John Scalzi's lamewad writing after briefly finding it clever in Old Man's War? (I think that's a decent place to end this because Scalzi is a very successful author.)
Anything sarcastic or playful can be perceived as insincere.
I’d be happy to read more of your thoughts—you should keep writing.