If you're going to complain about the way a question was asked, I think you should at least try to answer the question as though it were phrased in a better way

If you're going to complain about the way a question was asked, I think you should at least try to answer the question as though it were phrased in a better way. Otherwise people might be forgiven for assuming you don't actually know the answer and are complaining about phrasing/tone to mask your inability to actually answer what the asker was getting at.