I get why they do it and I get why it hurts. Saying 'team not good enough' would imply that the rest is a recipe for acceptance. What if everything was lacking?

I get why they do it and I get why it hurts. Saying 'team not good enough' would imply that the rest is a recipe for acceptance. What if everything was lacking? Would you want to hear that? "The whole idea, market and the complete team are all crap. Improvement on any of these factors is impossible as everything about your idea, team and execution is shit." I can't imagine that being helpful. To be honest, your question and example feedback "Not good enough team" give me the image of someone who has no savvy in the field of startups that YC is involved with. That you'd think that that would be a valuable piece of feedback formulated in such a way does not really strike me as something that a founder of a successful startup would think. From what I have read and heard about YC and their projects is that having a good feeling about applications is the nr 1 requirement in the whole founding process, so maybe it was that.