[_DeadFred_]

Didn't early Amazon use doors for desks? Forget ergonomics, forget making sure tools are fit for purpose. Seems contradictory.

[slowmovintarget]

Deliberately avoiding a tool that typically results in superficial communications seems on point to me.

I don't think your reductio ad absurdum works here.

[_DeadFred_]

"not permitting inane bullshit, falsity, dress-up, and cargo culting"

Except for the performative austerity of executives building desks out of doors. That’s theater, not clarity.