[dijit]

Fully agreed.

It's super difficult on a psuedo-anonymous forum to discern if a comment comes from a neutral place or a heavily biased one.

This is made even worse when there's a financial or reputational incentive for people to parrot something. If I had invested the bulk of my professional career in Microsoft: I would be genuinely uncomfortable with criticism. I would subconsciously feel threatened and would work to convince myself and others that it's not so bad, or that criticisms are overblown.

This is even more true if the company actively spends (your companies) money to make you feel good. You neither feel the actual pinch of the financials and you feel good about the company.

It's really clever, and we're emotional animals: so we don't always make the most pragmatic choices.