🙏 Thank you, we're all on the same team. And it's good for there to be pushback, just this time it was quite off!
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Even when criticism is or seems unwarranted you should try to take something constructive from it.
maybe adding "OPTIONAL" in bold or something like that would have prevented OP from misunderstanding it.
Backlash from commenters you gotta just let that slide like water off a ducks back, this is the internet afterall.