Well said about it being the author's fault John! However, I've found that for a couple of big league conferences, if you submit a paper that explains things simply, then people presume it's not worthy of publication by their "elite" conference. This is such a crap attitude. It also backfires because I don't believe that all the same people undertand everything they read straight off. It takes me a while to get to grips with some papers, and often I have to rephrase it in simpler form to get the gist of it.

Technical writing is such an enjoyable thing to do - the best teachers are those who make things look simple, not those who make it look difficult.