Yeah, I think the generous way to interpret the objector in this dialogue is as saying “I think you are underestimating how hard this problem is to fix”.
It’s not just that B is responsible instead of A, but that B has different constraints than A. Maybe you don’t see any constraints on A that would make the problem hard to solve. Yes—that is because the problem’s constraints are on B instead!
I think “the fact that you’re even complaining about X generically rather than explicitly X modulo B’s constraints this means you’ve thought about it less than I have” is an unfortunately common condescension.
Yeah, I think the generous way to interpret the objector in this dialogue is as saying “I think you are underestimating how hard this problem is to fix”.
It’s not just that B is responsible instead of A, but that B has different constraints than A. Maybe you don’t see any constraints on A that would make the problem hard to solve. Yes—that is because the problem’s constraints are on B instead!
I think “the fact that you’re even complaining about X generically rather than explicitly X modulo B’s constraints this means you’ve thought about it less than I have” is an unfortunately common condescension.