We also saw this with COVID. Plenty of people with no knowledge in infectious disease stating that the public solution was stupid and wrong but instead the obvious, simple and effective solution would be to "just do ....".
Personally if that happens at work and somebody (often managers) tells us to solve a difficult problem by "why don't you just..." I usually tell them the code is available and they "can just do it" themselves. So far I have never had any takers.
Yeah the inner source mode is useful in several ways. “That sounds interesting, we welcome pull requests” — much nicer than “there are about three fundamental things you are overlooking.”
We also saw this with COVID. Plenty of people with no knowledge in infectious disease stating that the public solution was stupid and wrong but instead the obvious, simple and effective solution would be to "just do ....".
Personally if that happens at work and somebody (often managers) tells us to solve a difficult problem by "why don't you just..." I usually tell them the code is available and they "can just do it" themselves. So far I have never had any takers.