The opening of Onyx Storm, a hugely popular Romantasy novel, includes a thirty word sentence with a subordinate clause at the start which is twice as long as the main clause. Simplicity is about more than sentence length.
My piece for the new edition of Works in Progress is now online! There have been many claims that modern prose is better because it is simpler, and that simpler means shorter. I offer a more complicated story, to do with style and syntax.