I'm sorry, I certainly don't mean to be off-putting. The way I parse a sentence like "I don't love this idea", and the way I meant it, is that I think the idea

I'm sorry, I certainly don't mean to be off-putting. The way I parse a sentence like "I don't love this idea", and the way I meant it, is that I think the idea has some merit, it's not terrible, but I'm not fully on board, it has more work to do. It's not all the way to "I don't like it" but it's not great yet. In any case I elaborated in the rest of the post a bit more on this so I think you can see from the context what I meant.