[closeparen]

Could not disagree more. Documents are props. They exist to help your stage production evoke feelings of gravitas and rigor, but this is driven more by form than substance. It’s a similar story for large officially scheduled meetings. Real communication happens in the hallway outside just after the official document review, and is pretty much independent of what was in the document.

[t-writescode]

Technical writing is absolutely a skill that developers need to know, among many other kinds of writing and it doesn’t have any gravitas.