They have to come up with an acronym for everything. They can't help themselves.
It would be useful for people to have at least a vague notion of timelines.
Lots of them online.
Knowing the difference between 500 million years ago and 100 million and 50 million and 1 million turns out to be rather important.
For example, why are the Texas oil fields called the Permian basin? Because that’s how old the rock is containing the oil. 250ish million years ago to 200 million years ago. That’s the rocks. The oil began forming more recently, about 70 million years ago.
It’s human nature..............
The military is even worse. I once attended a high level classified briefing at Patterson AFB. Lots of generals and other senior officers. I could not understand half of what they were talking about because of all the acronym. Might as well been in a foreign language.
During one of the breaks I mentioned it to one of the junior officers. A short time later he handed me a two page cheat sheet with all the acronyms explained so I could follow the briefing.
I guess I was not the first to mention the problem.