That's... self-contradictory. Your edit is in complete agreement with me. Baseline working relationship has trust and respect: "should be private" Otherwise:

That's... self-contradictory. Your edit is in complete agreement with me. Baseline working relationship has trust and respect: "should be private" Otherwise: "This is supposed to be encapsulated. Please make this variable private." Stilted, formal, directive language is not a hallmark of a healthy working relationship, and the number of replies to my comment here that seem to take the opposite position... is not encouraging.