Do you find that it just pushes the argument "up the stack"? And now instead of the discussion being about the code you're arguing about which outcome would b

Do you find that it just pushes the argument "up the stack"? And now instead of the discussion being about the code you're arguing about which outcome would be less astonishing? It seems like it would move the conversation from concrete to abstract and subjective. If the person replies "this is how I would expect it to work" you can't really argue with that, because maybe that is what they'd expect, even if that's not what you think a generic person would expect. Also, in my experience, one of the major holes that mediocre devs have is that they struggle to look at things from a different perspective (either the perspective of a user or the perspective of another developer). This principle is fully based on putting yourself in someone else's shoes and thinking about what they would expect, which is exactly what these devs struggle with.