Orwell's bad sentence uses harder words than it needs to, but it reworks the bible verse into direct claims.

Needing better reading skills to understand the bible verse just shows that it's not a good way to communicate. If an HNer wrote like the bible verse, you'd find them insufferably ostentatious. Just like you wouldn't want Claude to use literary flair when you're asking why your production database stopped working.

If you dumb down Orwell's sentence back to simpler terms, it's a point much better communicated than the bible verse.

Frankly the bickering in this thread is due to the original HN comment choosing a bad comparison because both sentences are poorly communicated for different reasons in this context: you wouldn't want Claude to write either.