Creative Writing

In prose fiction specifically, as it's sort of a given for a lot of poetry. Thinking things like "Ulysses" by James Joyce, although to a lesser extent. It seems like a lot of the writing advice I get for fiction I work on is to simplify it or that my wording is a tad confusing, but I think I just like to write that way. Not give readers a headache per se, but I like the concept of bleeding ideas into one another and leading people to really think about what they're reading. Idk. I feel like there's been sort of a push for simplification of prose where the more direct and literal your writing, the "stronger" it is, and relying on metaphor and allegory is considered "weaker" writing. Using a word with more than two syllables in it may be considered tryhard or superfluous. What do you think?