A bad-thing-to-avoid is that the people who are most scrupulous about reading messages like this, who (maybe) are also more likely to have written fine posts in the first place, end up overly anxious about it and delaying longer unnecessarily.
Suboptimal for what, though? If you audition for a place in an orchestra and you’re accepted, does that make the audition a suboptimal waste of time? If an aspiring musician lacks the confidence to apply, that is their problem, not the orchestra’s.
Um, hypothetically working as intended?
A bad-thing-to-avoid is that the people who are most scrupulous about reading messages like this, who (maybe) are also more likely to have written fine posts in the first place, end up overly anxious about it and delaying longer unnecessarily.
Um, no; see “longer than would be optimal.”
Suboptimal for what, though? If you audition for a place in an orchestra and you’re accepted, does that make the audition a suboptimal waste of time? If an aspiring musician lacks the confidence to apply, that is their problem, not the orchestra’s.