In any large organization where acronyms multiply left and right, you will quickly end up in meetings where half of the people talk about the new YDG and its advantages over NRK, and the other half have no clue what that means...
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Overuse of acronyms is like using obscure variable names in programming. Communication suffers.
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Alternative perspective: Acronyms can become a form of ubiquitous language that enables more complex and nuanced conversations. Of course this only works if there is no ambiguity on the terminology with all involved.https://thedomaindrivendesign.io/developing-the-ubiquitous-language/ …
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It’s even deeper than that . Acronyms are used to create in-crowds and out-crowds. Companies within companies.
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They also widen the gulf between the groundeds and the bookish. To be inclusive, makes sense to biomimic such names. Or to combine (agglutinate) existing related memory triggers.
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I've definitely felt this multiple times. It's like you have to learn a new language, ad hoc, all the time.
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Acronyms HELP when they shorten common, complex terms like deoxyribonucleic acid (dna). The real prob is folks don’t qualify the acronyms, assuming we know wtf they speak of!
Acronyms are innocent! 
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