Yet they still equate showing with stringing synecdoches together with little to no added meaning. I don't think people realize how unreadable the result is unless you're really used to it. It took me a lot of time and efforts to get used to the way contemporary English fiction is written. During the learning phase it took as much effort to understand a paragraph of amateur YA as it took to understand a stanza of Mallarmé, but in the first case the result was incredibly boring compared to what you get in the second case. I didn't realize it wasn't due to English being my second language until I got used to that writing style. In my opinion this writing style seems transparent to readers because it's highly stereotyped, not because it has some deep linguistic property. At some point it's bound to collapse, it can't keep its power of defamiliarization forever.