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by ucarion 2289 days ago
I'm guessing it depends on what your users expect:

https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/audience/

IBM has some guidance on this too, as part of their design system:

https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/guidelines/content/genera...

Basically IBM's rule seems to be: there's never a need to be _formal_, but you should be less conversational on specific tasks, and more conversational on high-level docs and marketing material.