While I can see where you're coming from and I do think he can create vivid imagery, I don't think that alone makes him a good writer. That scene is very nice but the issue is it's an oddity. There is a purpose in the descriptions and prose when in the vast majority of TOBS writing there just kind of isn't. Like what is the purpose of describing the lacquer of the wood on one of the priestess's fans? What is the point of writing an entire page describing a single tile of the fox den? And this isn't even mentioning how the flow of his scenes is fucking horrendous and he has george lucas-tier dialogue. Compound all that with the fact that none of his ideas are even very novel or interesting and I just really don't see it.
Anybody can learn how to describe things given enough effort. Not everybody can nail dialogue, characters, pacing, creativity, and everything else that comes with writing. Hence why I think he's just mid-tier at best.
