>Recent overuse by language models has led many to declare it bad writing. I'm not so sure.

It is bad writing.

verbify 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Always? There's never a place for it?

	▲	vonunov 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not always or inherently, I would say, but if you can't help consciously noticing how much a piece uses tricolons, or negative parallel constructions, or dashes offsetting punchy clauses at the ends of sentences, then the style has probably become what you might call overseasoned

I'd say it's average writing.