My personal bugbear is its usage of "grain" where normally you'd use "granularity", if at all.

Yes! Also everything's a "gate" that needs to be "wired up".

Let me get my fence pliers

Lately I've noticed everything is "sharp" or it "sharpens" the point or question or something.

That's a sharp question, and it reframes the whole point.

That's the smoking gun

Is it the smoking gun? Or is it the twist? Or maybe, even, the trap?

Belt and braces all the way down. They did their post training in British context?

I always get "Belt and suspenders" from Fable, so I can't tell

Provenance

Seam

Pressure test