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there's nothing "bad" about phrases like "impressively easy" or "significantly larger". OP just has a weird phobia of utterly reasonable adverbs.

I think we probably all have our own sets of words and phrases we don't like.

Mine are learnings, honestly, content creator / content consumer and verbed nouns of all sorts.

The weird one for me is honestly. According to Google NGram, it's been on the up upswing for the past 20 years or so.

It's a real struggle for me to take anyone seriously who uses "learnings" unironically.

“Utterly reasonable”

Nice.