Of course it would be. Even in your example, I would know that KDE is a desktop environment, which, from KDE alone, I would not. ADB is a debug bridge (apparently), which means it's a debugging tool, which means it likely wouldn't be terribly relevant for most typical Android users (and if that's wrong, then the article makes an even bigger mistake).
Typical Android users? Maybe not. But any non-developer user who has tried to sideload an app has used it. It’s hard to overstate how central adb is for doing anything on Android that goes beyond vanilla usage.
(But I agree, 5-7 words of explanation would be helpful)
