What scares me even more is when the community begins to deny the technical hurdle.
THIS. This is very real. It's the "Curse of knowledge" (I had forgotten the name, but just looked it up in a list of cognitive biases). I run into it all the time. Basically "better-informed people find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed people."
It can be easily (but temporarily) cured, by trying to get real people, in person to try to understand something that you think is simple.