If you wrote a question that made sense when you wrote it, would you change it if others had a hard time understanding it?

If you wrote a question that made sense when you wrote it, would you change it if others had a hard time understanding it?
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The last. I have a bad habit of assuming people follow my thought patterns. It wouldn’t be the first time I had to edit for clarity.
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