[mettamage]

I do this at work a lot and often the problem goes away because the stakeholders above me couldn't agree on the problem being important enough to solve for a long enough time.

When a problem survives this, usually it's worth solving.

[mettamage]

I normally don't write stuff like this but I did not expect 9 upvotes. I expected a karma hit (but I prefer to just write honestly what I think). That's informative, thank you.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

What you said isn't controversial. Its very often the case that people fret and worry about things that aren't 'problems' but instead are just 'stuff they don't like'. In the former case, ignoring it will often make it worse. In the latter case, if you wait a bit then people move on to other things to complain about.

[mettamage]

Update: the project that we worked on for the past month got pulled and we now have to work on a new project.

I am happy to report I only worked during the meetings and a bit outside of it, and feel totally vindicated by this approach.