Don't forget paranoid, delusional, obsessive/compolsive, insecure and one sided (in German there is a perfect term for them "Fachidiot", someone who is an expert in one thing and knows ABSOLUTELY nothing about anything else).
I'm going to try to interpret what you are saying:
People who are too smart can see neither the tree nor the forest because they spend all of their time counting the leaves, on the forest. While the people who are simply smart, notice that the trees have brown holes burned, through the leaves and that there is a cadmium-telluride (CdTe) belching vapor deposition plant, upwind of the dying forest. Go to the plant, fix the leaky deposition process and then, in their lab find a safe and recyclable product to replace the toxic cadmium-telluride and equally toxic additives for application specific purposes, in the specialty crystal, photovoltaic and semiconductor industries.