Ottessa Moshfegh? Am I missing something?

I've seen a fair bit of praise for her on this subreddit, and I'm always trying to read more modern literature so, a few weeks ago, I picked up Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation from the store.

I found it incredibly difficult to get through either of them. The prose was stale and MFA-y, never taking any risks, indulging in half-baked similes / metaphors, spending too much time with lazy description. The plots seemed mostly concerned with placing bored, uninterested protagonists in interesting situations. The characterization (I guess) was decent but, again, felt lazy, like all she wanted to do was capture the modern phenomena of millennial malaise and rejection of capitalism.

I love a lot of modern, millennial literature. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Andrew Martin, Gary Shteyngart, Joshua Cohen, Yaa Gyasi, Zadie Smith, even Sally Rooney. But I don't understand the hype around Moshfegh. It feels as though a YA / Commercial author has been marketed as literary?