Bikeshedding has become a thought-terminating cliche.[1] 99% of bikeshedding () I see is about things that absolutely have to do with how working at a nuclear power plant is like, not merely how you feel when you commute to and fro. Syntax? Absolutely something that matters. How an API is structured? That too.
It just so happens that everyone can have an opinion on it. So you have a problem with a thousand possible voices, and that many of them might be drive-through busibodies. But that’s still not bikeshedding.
True bikeshedding would be haggling over the styling of the Who Are We page of your promotional website.
[1] Like many, many nouns based on programming blogs from the last twenty years.
It just so happens that everyone can have an opinion on it. So you have a problem with a thousand possible voices, and that many of them might be drive-through busibodies. But that’s still not bikeshedding.
True bikeshedding would be haggling over the styling of the Who Are We page of your promotional website.
[1] Like many, many nouns based on programming blogs from the last twenty years.