I enjoy satire and sarcasm; but I found the parody of "dylanologists" weak enough that maybe that was how he actually thought. And anyway, is that really still a thing? So I doubted that he was trying to pastiche something we've all thought was silly for a couple of decades.
Perhaps I have a sense-of-humour defect; maybe I just didn't get it.
I enjoy satire and sarcasm; but I found the parody of "dylanologists" weak enough that maybe that was how he actually thought. And anyway, is that really still a thing? So I doubted that he was trying to pastiche something we've all thought was silly for a couple of decades.
Perhaps I have a sense-of-humour defect; maybe I just didn't get it.