But if you can't use it on the occasions when you need it, you will be marked out as semi-educated. Think of SWE as one of the several dialects of your native language that it is useful to master. You need not discard good ideas. Just jettison the surplus words. Trimmed down, they will seem to be even better ideas.
All writing improves with pruning.
If your word processor will count words, do so. Even better, cut a third. The people listening to you as you read your protocol on Faulkner will have just finished reading exactly the same work of Faulkner. Remember that every story starts as a blank sheet of paper. Every sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.