I think you are right. The older I get and the more people I work with I realize that most people are just ignorant. They come up with a "good idea" based on their ignorance and then push it. I know what it is like, because I have done it in the past, and still have to check myself even today. The best way I have found to combat this sort of situation is have a core group of trusted friends with various backgrounds. They will be the first to let me know my "good idea" is actually a bad idea and usually point me in the right direction to educate myself.
The problem is in the corporate world there is no trust. People seem to get the notion that if you use facts to show them their idea is bad that it is some sort of personal attack. Or worse, there are those in the corporate world that can spot a bad idea and not say anything -- only to watch it fail.
This is even more problematic in remote jobs (work from home). Most communication is non-verbal and much easier to misunderstand the writers true meaning/intentions.
Even without that, its a confounding problem for me. Im always doing those things: asking questions either to genuinely learn or to ferret out possible mistakes, pointing out errors, sharing better methods/techniques, etc. I just cant help it, and while I try hard to word things in a constructive manner, to make sure it IS constructive, more often than not I think it is taken poorly.
I want the same criticism of my own work, but I still often have a difficult time with it myself, though I recognize the signs as the knee-jerk reactions that they usually are, and seem to get better at that every day.
The problem is in the corporate world there is no trust. People seem to get the notion that if you use facts to show them their idea is bad that it is some sort of personal attack. Or worse, there are those in the corporate world that can spot a bad idea and not say anything -- only to watch it fail.