If you can keep up your current hot streak, it's surely just a matter of time before people start acknowledging you as the K-Dot of longform non-fiction

This analogy only works if we assume that you and the best prose writer in the world are two different people

Heaven fofend! I noted this line particularly: 'In very formal styles, we can use the negative form "used not to"'. I'm sure your sainted mother I would agree that this construction reads better, and also that the Times, as our newspaper of record, should adopt 'very formal styles' at all times.

Both are acceptable: dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/brit...