I started out quite disliking Sanderson's essay. Eventually I had to admit that this is just because I'm an opposing partisan. His taxonomy, on consideration, strikes me as sound, but my tastes run in the other direction. Over-explicated magical systems (like WoT) end up reading to me like RPG sourcebooks with some characters stuck in for color. I'd much rather read something like Susanna Clark, which, over and over, gave me the shivery sense that is so much of what I come to fantasy for.