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My favourite type of dismissal is:

"X is a stupid idea that nobody asked for and it will never even work. Besides we already have Y[1], so this is nothing new."

[1] Where Y is some product that foreshadows the functionality of X and is already successful among some set of users, although has some incidental limitations that prevent its growth



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