[aorth]

Yes, good suggestion. I've also stopped using "just" when speaking or writing in the last few years. You can almost always drop it and retain the same meaning without sounding rude or dismissive.

I've noticed this in at least one other language I'm loosely familiar with (Bulgarian) and it holds there too. When the speaker adds "просто" it has the same effect of sounding rude and dismissive.

[gghh]

Right: rude, dismissive, patronizing. Gives me exactly this impression, you put it into words better than me.