Grammarly Doesn't Know the Whole Story

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Grammarly just sent me an email with what they call a progress report. I have their free plan. According to their data, I wrote more words online than 95% of their other users, I was more accurate than 72% of their other users, and I had a larger vocabulary than 98% of their other users. I'd probably have a higher accuracy rate in their statistics were I a better typist. I have a bad habit of leaving an extra space between words, and that's a mortal sin in the eyes of Grammarly. I also ignore a lot of their corrections because their suggested corrections are often wrong in my context. Grammarly doesn't follow me everywhere I go online, so they don't really know all the words I've written. As for my vocabulary, that's a laugh. My vocabulary seems to deteriorate more as every year passes, and the words I do know often arrive in my brain by slow freight. Some just won't come back to mind at all when I need them. If Grammarly gives me such high marks, most of the best writers either don't use it online or they use the Yoast WordPress plugin to alert them to simplify their writing to make it easier for average readers. I know for a fact my writing was much better forty years ago. I still have samples of it. I wonder what Grammarly would have said then? How do you feel about your command of written English? How long have you been writing in English? Do you use Grammarly to help you? If so, how do you like it? I find it's helpful for catching my typos and it's easier to use than it was two months ago. If you need a bit of help when writing English online, their free version may be worth trying. It puts a red line under your mistakes and usually gives you a corrected version you can click on when you mouse over the red line. It works on myLot.