read the whitepaper carefully and ask to the team if you don't understand about the project, simple right ?
You can't generalize a lot of people especially for the newcomer will be the same as you. You are a part of early adopter of crypto and that's why you have a better knowledge than the newcomer that recently joining in the crypto
In my opinion there are lots of project were using complicated idea on their roadmap. that makes the newbies can't understand what the main aim of such project.
That's why the complicated project will get a lot of problem on miss communication with the community or new adopters.
Agree, even some basic smart contract projects are already technical enough it hardly can be comprehended by people who just got into cryptocurrency, not to mention something like parachain, and any other complicated dapps, it's just too complicated for most of people in general and any project should make an effort to somewhat simplify what their projects offer.