I completely agree. Calling an idea dumb is candid, I'd consider it a breath of fresh air from corporate speak. I left my prior position for similar concerns,

I completely agree. Calling an idea dumb is candid, I'd consider it a breath of fresh air from corporate speak. I left my prior position for similar concerns, specifically 'Architects' who I'd called out (and rather abruptly so) when they quoted AWS as being 'not redundant and only have one DataCentre'. We're not talking a conversation from 10 years ago either. This was June last year! Comments or statements like that need to be shouted out of the room. I feel there's a finesse to be drawn and understood here. If some one states, AWS is single site and no one else in the room challenges the stupidity of the claim. Some one ought to. That guys/girl is a fucking idiot. But some one who perhaps needs to be coaxed or massaged into a different angle because their code base will grow 90% in size? Depending on the context that might be for the best. Or it might not be. Coming back to my earlier analogy. Hammers and scalpels are both honest. Different tools for different needs.