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Was i was trying to say was mainly that saying please implies that what is asked is more of a personal taste, and not an objective thing that really should be fixed.

If it's really something subjective I would say "This would be nicer if..." or "I think that could be changed to..." Instead of formulating some almost passive-aggressive request with "please".

or SE Asian team members who say "yes boss, sure" and then do nothing... and then you find they disagreed with the thing you proposed but there's no way in their culture that they can disagree with the boss, so they just say yes and do nothing. That one was fun to deal with ;)

Canadians will use it liberally along with thanks.

And sorry.