To me, that's just how they tuned the 'audience' of the podcast, which I think we can imagine was at least partly informed by the 'audience' IRL podcasts are named at. I, too would like to be able to 'turn up the technical' on these, but for example, I dumped a paper about a latchless mutexless work distribution algorithm into it, which I had read but still had questions about, and the podcast accurately summarized, simplified it, and got my questions answered, which I then validated later by re-reading the paper. It was faster than combing through the paper would have been.