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Conversationally, in a beer over a barbie kind of way, no offence intended,

Dale-Chell lost me at "words that 80% of fourth-graders in American schools knew in 1948 (revised 1984)".

A cookie in 1984 is not the cookie of the 2020s web savvy teenager.

This particular article from the UK shares many of my own feelings about automated readability indexes:

I still admire your goal here, I'm simply suggesting to rely on a modicum of actual human feedback over automation where possible.