I am OK with being vulnerable but you can't explain certain things to ignorant recruiters, middle managers or CEOs. You can explain things to them but they will have an idealized uninformed idea in their head and compare what you said that to that. A good example is recruiters demanding 10 years of Solidity when Ethereum was launched in 2015. If you tell them that, they will get butthurt because you contradicted them or showed that they are uninformed about a topic, but if you just claim you have 10 years of experience, they will be happy in their bubble and hire you.

Of course, this is a different ball game when you are discussing with someone who also has programming / technical skills, for example, project managers with programming skills. You can explain certain decisions, troubles, and imperfections to them and they will get it. But someone who has no experience in the field will just make a negative assumption and run with it.