Similar. I've kinda learned that some people just have a lot of trouble with direct communication - especially from peers or people they don't report to or don

Similar. I've kinda learned that some people just have a lot of trouble with direct communication - especially from peers or people they don't report to or don't consider authoritative for whatever reason. They'll come up with all sorts of complaints about diction, tone, format, vocabulary, or medium but the reality is they just don't like to communicate that way. The strategy I use is to qualify and de-personalize everything. This is less persuasive writing, verbose, and slightly annoying but is "safer" if you don't know your audience. "It may be better", "X seems like it could be asked better", "help me understand your thoughts for X over Y", "what if we tried asking X like this? It might have this effect". This is categorically less efficient communication but is arguably more 'effective' if it means people don't get offended. As it's hard to be effective when people are complaining to their managers.