Believe me, the fact that the terminology for CS is overdeveloped and more extensive than reasonable is not lost on me. They seem to particularly love their bland alphabet-soup style documentation. Engineering lingo is intrinsically and unavoidably ridiculous, I think 90% for job security and 10% because English is a terrible language for science.
It's one of the reasons I'd rather major in informatics, though I'm not sure yet that it's much better. I think that if you put all the systems and techniques and algorithms developed in software engineering into a graph, and started building connections between them based on papers that utilize those elements, and then start drawing new elements out of those papers, you'll see a mind-boggling amount of redundancy that's been missed from lack of complete understanding by its participants. It wouldn't be perfect, but at the very least it would be visible, literally, to anyone that cared to look. This project would allow very rapid collaboration on something like that.
The same goes for, say, chemistry, which has had an explosion of papers as the cost to work on it goes down, but not much work done to unify their relationships. Manual navigation to references that may be completely unavailable. Review of papers requiring the same navigational effort. All kinds of redundant and repeated efforts that bog down the research process to a standstill, until someone, as you said, steps outside this comfort zone and gets a little creative or (re)forges a path on their own.
It's not that this would eliminate the ability or need to be innovative/review, either - it would just break the papers up so that you could see all of the work and data that's been checked by complete accident in distantly related work that researchers are insulated from through this barrier.
I suppose instead of giving up entirely, I could try harder to avoid using words I don't have the background for. It comes from needing an internal set of terminology to work quickly and self-document. At the same time I do know I've been a little more egotistical with flashy nonsense words than is helpful. Trying to stopper that and just communicate is not my strong point yet, heh.