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You can have an opinion about a tool as a user, without ever having ability to create such a tool yourself, that's literally what every tech and auto reviewer does.

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Sure, and the less you understand about the tool’s fundamental capabilities, the less useful your opinion is. The best reviewers have deep knowledge.

You can use this logic to say all products are perfect and any criticisms of them by users are moot because their creator knows them best.

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