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Communication can be an important part of one's job and communication encompasses more than just being able to speak to someone, but also being able to tailor your speech to your audience.
If a manager feels that your vocabulary can hinder how much a client or customer will be able to understand than it is reasonable to ask them to tone it down a bit in certain situations. In other where you are communicating with colleagues in adjacent industries it would probably be a boon to have someone sound super smart and knowledgeable and then you want them to tone it up. It's situational and can be a positive or a negative but the employee needs to be able to recognize the situation they are in and adjust accordingly.
I have a coworker right now where we have this issue. He's a very knowledgable person but also a little arrogant and always wants to sound like the smartest person in the room, but when you are explaining stuff to a random person on the street you don't want him to be blasting off technical jargon and Latin names for shit as it doesn't help the person understand anything and doesn't encourage increased dialogue.
People who are very knowledgeable in their field often have trouble "dumbing" things down. They make a lot of assumptions of base level knowledge that genpop doesn't possess.
I admit that I was that way for a while with IT, but I guess my mother being a teacher left me with the skill of being able to relate my knowledge to something they're familiar with.
It got easier once I realized that if everyone possessed the knowledge that I do, I'd be out of a job. Also made dealing with tech illiterate people much easier.