"Many of them can't put a single sentence together."
According to a study carried out in California about 15 years ago, 95% of students at a four year university could not write a grammatical sentence.
In my schooling in South Africa in the 50s and 60s, if you couldn't do that, you stayed behind and repeated the year - right throughout junior and senior school. Pointing out that sentences are not grammatical is not putting people down. It's pointing out facts.
It's also annoying to read writing that is promoted as being excellent by Medium, and then finding one is reading something that is semi-literate.
QUOTE: 130 million Americans—54% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 years old—lack proficiency in literacy, essentially reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
QUOTE: What’s the latest U.S. literacy rate? Just 2% of global adults read at top level.
https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/
I'm not putting people down, Joachim. I'm accustomed to a very much higher standard. For most of my life, I never came into contact with people who weren't highly literate. I never saw publications that weren't perfect. Now I see books written by bestselling authors which have multiple errors. The editors didn't pick it up.
