I wonder what setting makes your advice most relevant. If you were to employ it on characters like mine, you'd be nuking our relationship too.

Just as in C.Voss' negociations, there is a power struggle at the core of the conversation. Here it stems from the assumption that the critic (you) is more knowledgeable than the criticized. Even though the script states that one can criticize back, it is difficult to do so when the recipient is being fed the criticism as bredcrumbs through riddles. One may get upset at the cat and mouse game the critic is playing. The very premise of the conversation is "Thanks to my greater intellect, I can navigate our interaction at a higher level of metacognition than you, and you'll get exactly where I want."

The "What else" are the worst, it's really like a carrot on a stick.

Very seldomly I found this approach delivered with enough honesty to actually take counter arguments as valid, not as justifications.