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If you find that life is to short to sub edit I have a suggestion.
The best proof I've ever seen of the existence of God is that everyone who dispenses lectures on the Internet about the evils of bad spelling and editing invariably -- and I mean invariably -- makes a humiliating spelling or editing error as they do so.
In the English language, there is no word limit on a proper sentence. The sentence about which you're complaining is grammatically correct. I like it. For some thoughts, I like short sentences. For others, I like long sentences. There are sentences in German, which I studied for a long time, that can be several hundred words. It's a stylistic preference, not a matter of poor editing -- unlike writing the word "to" when you mean "too."
