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Yeah, that's fair. Tbh, I'm not solid on which terms to use and I'm totally open to better suggestions. "splaining" does make sense. It fits the categories we talked about and I think it's still quite intuitive to grasp what's the difference between "explaining" and "splaining".
One thing that's kinda difficult to avoid though is people misusing these words to defend against situations where no defence is necessary.
I've seen the same thing happen with "mansplaining" before, where a new female hire would tell an experienced manager to not "mansplain" an important concept to her, so he stops explaining and she runs head-first into the problem he tried to warn her of.
In certain contexts (especially safety-related or other critical stuff) it's better to err on the side of explaining things the recipient might already know instead on the side of missing important things. For example, telling a flight attendant on a plane that they don't need to "splain" where the exits are would be kinda stupid.
To stay with the aviation example: Pilots are trained to call out and confirm everything they do. It would be quite bad if one pilot told the other one to shut up because obviously they already noticed that the other one changed the flap settings or something like that.
(But obviously all of that is besides the point which was: We need better words, and "splaining" is a totally valid replacement for "mansplaining")