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I wouldn't say that it's either/or with respect to the person, so much as two types of activities/skills that interfere with each other.

Coming up with innovative solutions to complex technical problems requires you to be in the weeds, and think non-linearly (e.g. using intuition); while communication requires abstraction to (preferably) only the most important elements, and linear composition of the ideas into speech or text.