The one difficulty with this, and one I've had trouble with before, is when this strays into me, as a team member, being unsure if we're intentionally trying to

The one difficulty with this, and one I've had trouble with before, is when this strays into me, as a team member, being unsure if we're intentionally trying to look dumb/make something look harder than it is to another party in the company as part of some sort of internal politics. Even less deviously, it can certainly throw a wrench into a meeting to have to explain some things to the least experienced person in the room, even if it's by proxy of someone more senior. I've had plenty of planning meetings get derailed because someone asked a lot of basic questions that 3/4 or more of the participants surely knew the answer to. Sometimes there's just value in following up later with your senior engineer about something you didn't understand instead of holding up a number of other people to get the explanation right now.