And nobody said they were obligated to. So I don't know what you think you're responding to.

I assume it's OK to ask people what they think a solution should be, though?

Seems like a pretty natural, conversational follow-up, if you ask me.

Presumably if you know a situation well enough to criticize, you have at least some ideas of what alternatives might or might not be better. Or can elucidate why you think there might not be any better ones.

Or do you think the entire act of asking questions is "just wrong", to use your phrase?