Unlike you, I have trust that "ordinary people" are capable of understanding complex things. I am an ordinary person. I hold at this time no college degree. I am able to understand and communicate complex ideas through my own effort and so, because I am not an elitist and do not believe I am special, I trust that others also have this ability. The obsession with simplifying everything to the point of meaninglessness is not really a protection of the masses from elitism, rather it is elitism, because it implies ordinary people cannot understand complex ideas and in reality they very much can.