Comment by bastawhiz

> The downstream users can then evaluate the issue and say it does/doesn't/kinda affects them with certainty and lower their internal impact.

If you make it use the worst case lowest common denominator, it biases nearly everything towards Critical, and the actually critical stuff gets lost in a sea of prioritization. It's spam. If I got fifty emails for critical issues and two of them are really actually critical, I'm going to miss far more important ones than if I only got ten emails about critical issues.

If we all had infinite time and motivation, this wouldn't be a problem. But by being all-or-nothing purists, everything is worse in general.