@lauren If you're referencing the first part of my statement, it was my attempt to preemptively prevent a disagreement from people who might think I'm some corporate shill. Unfortunately, by trying to prevent that from happening, I'm receiving negativity from another direction.

Maybe I shouldn't have felt the need to use a preemptive statement like that, but I've been burned so many times by not doing that that it's become a habit. Sadly it only reduces conflict. It doesn't prevent it outright.