@McTag,
If, as you say, it's jargon, meant for specialists, why would the writer need to search for a better way to express herself.
You, McTag, [and certainly others] can be flummoxed by writings on language, others confused by engineers' descriptions. The hardest thing about university is getting up to speed on the voluminous "new" vocabulary that exists for every discipline.
This pattern of trying to blame the writer is really lame. There simply are concepts that are beyond each of us, at least until we get up to speed with the lingo.