Fwiw I feel fine, with both slow/fast and smooth/sharp thinking of it as a continuum. Takeoffs and timelines can be slower or faster and compared on that axis.
I agree if you are just treating those as booleans your gonna get confused, but the words seem about as scalar a shorthand as one could hope for without literally switching entirely to more explicit quantification.
Fwiw I feel fine, with both slow/fast and smooth/sharp thinking of it as a continuum. Takeoffs and timelines can be slower or faster and compared on that axis.
I agree if you are just treating those as booleans your gonna get confused, but the words seem about as scalar a shorthand as one could hope for without literally switching entirely to more explicit quantification.