Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
Everything is relative.
I second that.

I don't think that chains of genitives or complicated sentences are the same phenomena. It is just a different style which is made for specific purposes. If someone write research report or legal paper in a colloquial manner, that will cause great problems not because of the snobbery of other people, but because such papers will be unusable - not enough exact. Still wrong style can be considered as hypercorrection sometimes...
I guess I have to agree: the канцелярит I wrote about is more pseudo than hyper-correction. "Согласно приказа" is not correct but people often think it is and make it look like it is. I just jumped at the possibility of listing all my pet peeves. And, yes, it is a different style but it doesn't take to be wrong to be special.