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No worries friend, no hard feelings and appreciate the engagement!
Yeah, agree it is a bit wishy washy in terms of gauging how much explanation to include ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I suppose (in my opinion) the mindset should be: include as much explanation as possible, without it being cumbersome.
I personally err on the side of over-explanation and have had some senior engineers give me feedback that it's too much. Still learning for myself how much is too much.
Totally agree though, that there are many cases where people leave things out as assumed, when it's not really reasonable to do so.
A side-thought on specificity: one of my biggest pet peeves is when people list pressure with the units of kPa, when they really mean kPag. In industry, you are rarely talking in absolute pressure (other than for pressure differences) and people then get lazy/don't know/assume it's fine to do something like: set point 100 kPa (when they mean 100 kPag). It isn't fine though, because at lower pressures atmosphere counts for a pretty large percentage of the absolute value.