[johnathandos]

You're not wrong. Business is a tough environment.

At a gut level the post seems sensible to me, and it does generate a lot of ideas about how I can make my own docs better. That's not enough, though, if I want the folks who think about docs at my org to change their approach.

As the OP states in several other comments, most writers and organizations learn to prioritize task-based documentation. If we want to adopt a better way of doing things, we need to be able to communicate why it's better. It's no different in other disciplines.

[gtirloni]

Exactly. Or you become an island doing the good but sometimes barely scratching the surface of what could be possible (to the detriment of your users).

Another aspect of this is that it may take you more time to complete your assignments and you get labeled as slow.