You can be a resource and still make a suggestion or notice something. Outright ignoring suggestions because of rank is dangerous. In software, it’s probably a

You can be a resource and still make a suggestion or notice something. Outright ignoring suggestions because of rank is dangerous. In software, it’s probably a programmer “in the trenches” who first realizes that something won’t work, or that you need X in addition to Y, and it can be very cost-effective to fix these things early.