Look, I know I overuse adjectives, and I delete them in multiple editing passes.
I also make an effort not to use rare words. So, yes, I am self-taught, but I read as much as possible in editing, and I try as hard as I can to fit into the modern requirements to style. Yes, I understand that it has to be 5 senses feedback, emotional, but show and with minimal use of adjectives and adverbs, and only when they change noun and verb to something unexpected from noun and verb. That double-downs adjectives and adverbs and rare words are to be avoided.
That does take pruning.
However, in web fiction, adjectives often or, at least sometimes, help, because the aim is short sentences, short paragraphs and quicker delivery of a story. Yes, I should delete squelching, but I like soggy there