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Friend: "So you get paid to spend the day periodically typing on your computers, surrounded by lots of large monitors, and several times a day you have video calls with people where you use so much jargon that the conversation is almost entirely divorced from the English language? You just finished an hour long meeting where I overheard every word from both sides of the conversation, and I have no idea what the hell either of you were talking about."
Me: "yes, that about sums it up"
Every area of expertise has vocabulary that's relevant only to that discipline, is extremely precise and carries a lot of useful meaning. Why would that be bad?
Its not "bad", but the goal proposal of the OP post was that our friends gain understanding by observing us do our jobs. The jargon means even with direct observation, our friends cannot gain understanding of the jobs we do.
Then the proposal may be unfeasable for professions with highly specialized knowledge. Dumbing down the jargon of doctors, programmers or architects, for instance, makes no sense given the loss of needed precision. If a mundane doesn't know the workings of the lymphatic system or the uses of the visitor pattern, tough luck.