Remaining conspicuously undecided on contested questions looks like intellectual humility. It's usually strategic ambiguity: a way of preserving social optionality at the cost of honest engagement. The person who never commits never learns from being wrong.
Self-awareness is treated as an unambiguous good. But monitoring yourself in real time reliably degrades the very performance you're trying to improve. Introspection is a tool for review, not execution—and confusing the two is costing you.
The demand that expertise be made explainable, auditable, and documented doesn't preserve knowledge—it replaces it with a legible simulacrum while the real thing quietly disappears. Showing your work is not the same as doing it.