I can just imagine the comment that you deleted, Pagan. I'll bet you were recommending Scott or some such silliness.
Now why couldn't you have said that you simply didn't care for Austen? That I would have understood. But just because you can't relate to her style or her themes, does not mean she is... whatever you said. She is a genius at narrating human psychologies in all of their selfishness, immaturity, cold-blooded, foolish, interfering varieties. Not to mention the self-reflexive protagonists who know how to analyse and learn to transform their own less than ideal qualities. I don't mind that you can't relate, but you don't have to put Austen down. She's a genius writer. Scott was no genius--talented, yes, but not genius.