I used to feel exactly this way about Wolfram until I actually talked to some of my professors about him... they pointed out that this framing is unique to stud

I used to feel exactly this way about Wolfram until I actually talked to some of my professors about him... they pointed out that this framing is unique to student's experience - where some of our peers really do know more than others. But most professors have been passionately studying their fields full-time for longer than you've been alive (some, probably longer than the two of us, combined)... at that point, not being able to communicate is a matter of misusing or misunderstanding jargon, not of "knowing more" than someone else or "going over their head". As brilliant as he is, it seems Wolfram is rather guilty of disregarding a lot of the work already done in the fields he works in - coming up with his own jargon for parallel (published) ideas, and hyping up his unreleased work instead of publishing and just letting it speak for itself (like alpha). Research is more about advancing the understanding of science in the community than it is about doing something brilliant on your own (because as brilliant as it is, if one can't communicate it, it'll die with the individual), and so Wolfram deserves quite a lot more criticism than he gets.