Is the idea also that someone two levels below me would not be able to understand some of my ideas?
No, I agree that this interpretation isn’t useful.
I don’t understand why not; it seems entirely equivalent. (Is this just an act of signaling—a manifestation of the fact that it’s impolite to acknowledge the existence of levels below oneself—or what?)
I don’t understand why not; it seems entirely equivalent. (Is this just an act of signaling—a manifestation of the fact that it’s impolite to acknowledge the existence of levels below oneself—or what?)