The eng director at my current company does a good job of mitigating this. He'll often give remarks in our technical docs, but always prefaces it with "this is

The eng director at my current company does a good job of mitigating this. He'll often give remarks in our technical docs, but always prefaces it with "this is a bike shedding comment but.." etc etc. Always makes it clear that we're free to ignore his input if he's missing necessary context. Because ultimately eng management must be able to weigh in at points, so we're never going to get rid of that problem. The question is how to do it without wasting IC time.