Why the flip didn’t anyone tell me Guy Gavriel Kay is so damn good?

I always had the idea his work was stuffy and old-fashioned. Just finished A Song for Arbonne today and man alive. Gonna buy his complete bibliography at this rate.

Edit: to those of you saying ‘don’t you read anything on here?’ I have three responses - (a) not religiously (b) I kinda just meant the question rhetorically to mean ‘I just started GKK’ and (c) GET OFF MY BACK KENNETH