Sure, but a lawyer / Torvalds / any SME might want to hedge that their opinion is strong or not. There's a pretty darn big difference between "my gut feeling i

Sure, but a lawyer / Torvalds / any SME might want to hedge that their opinion is strong or not. There's a pretty darn big difference between "my gut feeling is that this approach is too complicated, but I've not analyzed the problem sufficiently to know whether my gut is correct" and "there's no way this is the right architecture, it'll have harmful impact, and there's lots of better ways to do it". It's imo especially important to do so from positions of authority where others might be less critical in accepting ones statements as truth.