Calling it well-executed is pragmatic. There's no reason to avoid positive-sounding things if they're true, especially not because it's positive.

  If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War