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the architect had been berating and criticizing a team member for weeks

If berate is truly the appropriate word (upon investigation), and I had any say in the matter, I would fire his toxic ass immediately.

"I was once a tech lead of a team where the architect had been berating and criticizing a team member for weeks over something he thought should take a day"

As I've gotten more experience as a developer, I've realized that most tasks take longer than I used to estimate..usually because I want to come up with a long-term solution and not just hack something together with no testing.

I'm sure I still have far to go, but currently when I see someone quote a time frame for a change I am more concerned when it is short vs. seems too long. Especially when the dev is questioned and the estimate doesn't include time for documentation, deployment, etc.