Should professionals answer non-professional questions in layman term?

Question

A very example for this: Anti-inflammatory painkillers and healing

I don't refute the fact that this is a scientific - based site, and it should encourage professional to answer, and should answer high quality answers.

"To attract experts, you need a site where people are asking very interesting and challenging questions, not the basic questions found on every other Q&A site. Remember, the pro sites WILL attract the enthusiasts, but not the other way around!"¹

Is the above question interesting, challenging and not the basic question? I would say yes. Is its answer a pro, high quality answer? Yes too. But it contains so many term. A lot. I love to expand my knowledge, but facing this answer, it just makes me lost. Using a text analyser will illustrate this (the left column is for the question, the right column is the for answer):

pain      7      use        6
ibuprofen 2      cox        5
now       2      nsaids     4
week      2      selective  4

I think if the answer is so hard to understand, it will go against the spirit of answering a question: help the asker shorten the research time.

The best solution I can think of is having another answer. One answer explains the problem in full detail, another one is a simple version of it. This is good too, as in SE we encourage multiple answers for a question. There is a good example for this in Physics SE; I made a simple answer and the OP accepted it². If a professional doesn't have time to make an easy-to-digest answer, then leaving it for another one is fine. But if they have time, I think they should make a simple one by themself.

TLDR: I think every answerer should be aware of "the curse of knowledge"³.

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^{1 Are professional-to-professional questions within the site scope?}

^{2 How exactly does gravity work?}

^{3 Why Bad Doctors Are Like Bad Writers: The Curse Of Knowledge}

Answer 1

You state

I think if the answer is so hard to understand, it will go against the spirit of answering a question: help the asker shorten the research time.

I guess I disagree pretty strongly that our main purpose here is to help the OP shorten their research time. That's the idea on Biology.SE to closing a question as homework.

I feel that our man purpose here is to help the OP. The answer given in your example is a good answer. It is informative, helpful, and has good references.