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Why did Kant write the way he did?

You probably know what I mean by the title if you've read any of his works, he is tremendously hard to read and constantly uses hugely complicated wording as well as sentences that spread through multiple pages.

But why is this? Why did he think this was necessary? I vaguely remember reading somewhere that he admitted in a letter he was very rigorous in the contents but didn't care about style at all, and that he was influenced by somebody who he knew in his youth in his style of writing, though there is no source for any of this that i can find which is why I've resorted to coming here for aid.
gpt
Here's a bit taken from the Introduction to the Cambrdige Edition of the *Critique of Pure Reason*:

>  The book is complex, however, not just because of the complexity of Kant's own position, but also because he argues on several fronts against several different alternative positions represented in early modern philosophy generally and within the German Enlightenment in particular. In order to make room for his own dualistic defense of both modern science and human autonomy, Kant, like Descartes, Locke, and Hume, felt he had to rein in the pretensions of traditional metaphysics, which was represented for him by the school of Christian Wolff (1679-1754) and his followers, especially Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762). Their position, which Kant called "dogmatism," was compared in the Preface to the Critique to the despotic ministry of an absolute monarchy - Kant held dogmatism to be capricious, opinionated, faction ridden and consequently unstable and open to the contempt of rational observers.

Kant wrote the way that he did due the nature and scope of the task that he set out to accomplish, which was, in no small words, revolutionary in philosophy at the time - challenging many of the fundamental assumptions of how philosophy was done up till then.