dard12
Criticism does not have to mean preventing work, we can be critical especially of work that we find important.
It's just more commonly used in literary writing than in technical writing.
I empathize with how the complexity of these experiences and their knock-on effects make understanding what is happening with ourselves difficult.
There's seemingly a parallel to the gun control discussion, where again one side wants more verification of eligibility, but the other side is worried that the verification--if applied over-zealously--will be too restrictive.
The two sides are swapped on the two issues, but each time they disagree not necessarily because their fundamental opinions are different, but because they do not trust the other side to be reasonable.
My theory is that many people have a mental model of colors that maps roughly to the hue and value in HSV, so for example terms like "dark orange" is a value followed by a hue. Now suppose you understand brown as a "dark beige", that's suddenly confusing because beige introduces saturation and you cannot map beige back to orange without thinking about saturation.
One small feedback is to visually highlight the top pick more. My workflow with reviewers like The Wirecutter is to scroll straight to the "our pick" section. This assumes I have some level of trust in the reputation of the reviewer as being thoughtful.
Caveats:
- The top pick is noted in the summary but it's always one of many bullet points.
- It's also the first row of the summary matrix, but that wasn't immediately obvious to me.
- I may be more of a skimmer than your target user.