I think my tolerance for certain types of writing is pretty low, though--I'm not sure how to articulate it, exactly. Most of the time when I see people praising an author's style for making them "work" as a reader (rather than the author's content), chances are I am going to find that book annoying.

IDK, 'beautiful' and 'ugly' are very loaded words to start with, and redefining deliberate ugliness as artistic beauty seems like it might be...adding an unnecessary level of complexity? I'm not sure.