And right now there’s some interesting debate going on about this layer of accessibility, with different voices making conflicting claims about the degree to which it’s possible (and desirable) to change the way scholarship is written and presented so that it will be more accessible to those who read it.
I've never felt more dumb than trying to read some scholarly articles - which has always made me wonder if the writing was intentionally obfuscated, or if I was really just that behind. Does everything NEED jargon? Does jargon only sound like jargon when you don't understand / aren't at the appropriate excellence level to read the article?