Legendary bassist Leland Sklar put a switch on his bass that does nothing. He calls it the "producer switch" — when a producer asks for a different sound, he flips the switch (making sure the producer can see), and carries on. He says this placebo has saved him a lot of grief.
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[–] 3 points 22 hours ago

Though you do run the risk that they love something you intended to be annoying. "The dart board value selector widget will make our product fun and exciting for gen Zs, I must report this to the board immediately so we can invest in converting all of our widgets to darts-based!"

Or make it too annoying and they might question your competence. "Yeah, he did quickly change the button that counted how many times you pressed it to a text box where you can enter a value but why would he have thought we'd have wanted that button in the first place!?"

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