L true, one thing I enjoy challenging myself with is reading a seemingly boring paper, such as the one where researchers found a mouse up a hill, and writing about it in a way that shows how interesting it actually is when you take out the professional jargon.
You're right that this should play a bigger role in academia, and with papers getting increasingly unreadable over the decades, we're only going in the wrong direction
That is a field dependent statement. As soon as you master the basics (this is maybe the point), papers can be easily read and understood. At least in my field.