if, as a UX designer, you don't have opinions, then all you're doing is blindly optimising for metrics that may have nothing to do with actually good experience

if, as a UX designer, you don't have opinions, then all you're doing is blindly optimising for metrics that may have nothing to do with actually good experiences. This is why platforms like twitter and facebook are such cacophonous trashfires: UX "Designers" chasing "engagement", and holding no opinions. you might as well just hand your job over to an AI, you're contributing nothing to the process.