<< I spent years dumbing things down and creating visuals to support it for decision maker

And that is a problem. I am not guiltless ( I am working one such abomination now! ). The dumbing down of everything has to stop somewhere. Just because my boss thinks hiss bosses are retards does not mean I have to endure simplified muse where I can't change much.. I get that normal people like it. Fuck em. They are making their choice.

It's okay to be able to grasp what is important, and move on. You have a finite amount of time to spend.

For me, I try to spend as little time in QuickBooks as possible.

It might shock you to learn that almost everything that has ever been explained to anyone has been dumbed down from the true description of reality.

We make little abstractions of the world around us to help us navigate it. Nothing wrong with that.