Full throttle, if you feel your fellow collegues do not have the ability 'to understand it properly' then your ops department as a whole cannot be functioning properly.
Your point on this issue being a specialist one is absolutely correct, but so is flight planning, crew duty, and various performance issues which any good ops controller in this day and age should have a good working knowledge of, in fact as we keep hearing in these pages, isn't the trade pretty specialist generally ??.
If they are never trained, then how are they to learn ?? I think your Ops Manager has made a good call here.......pity his staff are not giving it the support it deserves.
TG