Big words are sometimes a fog machine. Good ideas usually survive being said in plain English.

Complicated language sometimes carries complicated ideas and sometimes conceals thin ones, and from outside those look identical. The test is whether the point survives translation. An idea that falls apart in plain words was probably being held together by the vocabulary. This is worth checking on your own writing as much as on anyone else’s.

Take your last serious paragraph and rewrite it as if explaining to someone you respect who is not in the field. Whatever you cannot say simply, look at again. Often the real idea turns out to be smaller and better than the one you dressed up.