Having been on the receiving end of "I'm not sure we really understand what is going on here" more than a few times, from specific people, I was able to decode

Having been on the receiving end of "I'm not sure we really understand what is going on here" more than a few times, from specific people, I was able to decode this eventually. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, but it definitely was less jarring to hear those words instead of "you don't know what you are talking about."