A large part of any scientists job is communicating results. The people you criticize may not be novelists, but they are certainly professionals when it comes t

A large part of any scientists job is communicating results. The people you criticize may not be novelists, but they are certainly professionals when it comes to communicating technical knowledge. However, this knowledge is only communicated to other experts in the same - often very narrow - subfield. Often the definitions that give you a hard time when reading a paper have been refined over several years and are basically known to all other people working in the same field. This is not ideal, but there is simply not enough manpower to produce good and generally accessible summaries of current research topics every few months...