I think it may be aimed at English as a second language learners.
I get books similar to these that are in "français facile" but they are written by a human to try to keep the author's style. For some books, it's more trouble than it's worth. Completely guts the original of why you would read it.
Yeah, this doesn’t seem like a tool for people who like to read books. It doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of money in selling books to people who don’t read books
Yeah, a big problem here is that the narrator of the Great Gatsby is a specific person, the kind of person who uses the syntax on the left, and who wouldn't refer to his father as 'dad' in that context. So the use of language is conveying important information, it's not just to be 'hard'.
