With all due respect, you are not the universal arbiter of "crappy"-ness and "hacked-together"-ness, nor is anybody else. My guess is that you have concerns about the library, and you are absolutely within your right to say so. Your concerns may even have significant substance to them; or perhaps there is additional perspective that could change your mind.
Unfortunately, presenting your view and judgement as a statement of objective fact not only shuts down potentially valid counter-argumentation, but it's also inflammatory/insultory because it misrepresents your agency in the situation, and diminishes the efforts/personhood of those who contributed to the library.
It's understandable that you might want to use such phrasing as short-hand from time to time, but saying it out loud, especially in a public venue is regrettably demonstrative of a lack of self-awareness. It drowns out your message regardless of its merit, and pushes other people away. It's a reductive way of thinking, and it does everybody (including yourself) a disservice.
In the words of Groucho Marx "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
We could all choose be sour and jaded, fighting over scraps in a futile search for self-worth –OR– we could each take it upon ourselves to be the standard-bearers of what was, and hopefully will remain, a warm and inviting place for meritorious debate. I choose the latter.
With all due respect, you are not the universal arbiter of "crappy"-ness and "hacked-together"-ness, nor is anybody else. My guess is that you have concerns about the library, and you are absolutely within your right to say so. Your concerns may even have significant substance to them; or perhaps there is additional perspective that could change your mind.
Unfortunately, presenting your view and judgement as a statement of objective fact not only shuts down potentially valid counter-argumentation, but it's also inflammatory/insultory because it misrepresents your agency in the situation, and diminishes the efforts/personhood of those who contributed to the library.
It's understandable that you might want to use such phrasing as short-hand from time to time, but saying it out loud, especially in a public venue is regrettably demonstrative of a lack of self-awareness. It drowns out your message regardless of its merit, and pushes other people away. It's a reductive way of thinking, and it does everybody (including yourself) a disservice.
In the words of Groucho Marx "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
We could all choose be sour and jaded, fighting over scraps in a futile search for self-worth –OR– we could each take it upon ourselves to be the standard-bearers of what was, and hopefully will remain, a warm and inviting place for meritorious debate. I choose the latter.