I can appreciate the effort from WaniKani and the humour is top notch, but I feel like there’s too much focus on the humour and less focus on helping us understand the way the word is used… It’s great practice to read long sentences as I’ll for sure come across them in the future but there are other resources better for that. I’ve been using ChatGPT to make concise sentences when I learn a new bit of WK vocab and it’s been great, but it would be easier and cooler if we had simpler sentences in the site itself.
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The team has been reworking the examples sentences lately, maybe they haven’t rewritten those yet? It does read like the try-hard, overcomplicated sentences that used to be the norm on the site and made the example sentences near-useless.
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If you’d like, you can try out my userscript. The results from Immersion Kit often contain quite short sentences/snippets, and you can even choose to sort them by sentence length.
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I just learned 洗車 last night and had the same thought. Often I’ll be reading along for the first clause or two then just have to give up as it becomes obvious the sentence is beyond my level. That first sentence could easily be changed to something like “While I waited for the car wash to finish, I bought a coffee.” and be much more valuable to the intended audience.
That’s still nowhere near the worst of them, though. Around levels 10-12 it seemed like almost every vocab word had at least one context sentence using kanji that weren’t taught yet. As a random example, 初級, a level 11 vocab word, has a context sentence with 懸, a level 38 kanji. Assuming all the context sentences are just entries in a database, it’d be trivial to find these level mismatches if anyone cared to do it.
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I think they try to have one easy sentence, one intermediate and one advanced that can contain complicated kanji. I think it’s reasonable that way and caters to users of all levels and backgrounds. The issue is when all three sentences are obtuse and overcomplicated.
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I like this suggestion the most because longer sentences are a good way to practice other kanji in context too, so I wouldn’t want them all to be simple.
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In the beginning there was only one example sentence per vocab. Oftentimes the long one, but it’s not like all of them are long and convoluted. Then eventually they added two more (easier ones) to the vocab from level 1 to 20. Newly added vocab I think they add 3 sentences from the get-go. If you encounter a higher level vocab with 3 sentences, it most likely was moved from a lower level 
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I’ve been using this for a few days now and it’s been really helpful, thank you!