Dylan 100% laughs at people who idolize him, and a couple of his songs are just pretentious (and/or cheeky) name checking (Desolation Row- pretentious. Highway 61-cheeky)... but most of his best and most prominent work are diss tracks? (Like A Rolling Stone, Ballad of A Thin Man, Idiot Wind, Positively 4th Street etc.). It isn't hard to tell what they're about at all. They're just colorful. He also writes a lot of love songs- some of which bother to depict human nuance (Others are just creepy, and may reflect crimes he in fact committed?). Also- not hard to decipher- just less blunt than the lyrics of the jingles the Beatles were writing in 1964.

It's okay to dislike things that are well made. I don't like To Pimp A Butterfly. Good kid, m.A.A.d. city is fantastic, but I can't make myself enjoy TPAB. I don't feel the need to try and convince myself that it's secretly tricking people into thinking it's smarter than it is. It's just not my taste.