While I disagree, I really appreciate you defending your view as I have only seen the other side being represented and it is opening my eyes to Oracle's perception.
But how would you resolve XCabbage's first counterpoint with the political argument. An outline is just an outline, having a writer write up a detailed opinion is the 'concrete' aspect of it. If I were a political teacher I can tell my students to write an essay about this argument, but students cannot copy word for word a detailed write up by someone else.
I've seen it happen. Slack is filled with things one can waste time on. Our company uses Mattermost which is like Slack except stripped down to core chat components.