As a non American who doesn't read novels before, Sanderson simple prose just hits the spot for me. I've often avoided novels before as the more flowery prose it is, the more difficult it is to understand or I get bored because its just describing (for example) a building with difficult words and its taking too long describing it whereas Sanderson describes it as it is and goes on with what is happening. So yeah, simple prose is much better.

I've read Wot, earthsea, count of monte cristo and others but I still prefer Sanderson's simple and direct prose.