Most criticism doesn't stem from insight, but from cognitive laziness.

If a person nitpicks over trivial matters while failing to engage in deep thought on things requiring cognitive effort, they'll appear "smart" yet actually remain stagnant.
After realizing this, whenever I offer criticism, I always consider whether my critique is structural, substantive, and constructive. If not, it means I'm merely deriving a sense of superiority from criticism rather than using it to understand, analyze, and attempt to address the problem.
Those unaware of this tend to indulge in fault-finding, whether at the dinner table or on social media, thus creating what's called "dad vibe" (爹味). "Dad vibe" is a behavior of leveraging criticism and grandiose preaching to display one's cognitive superiority.
Understand, analyze, reflect, then criticize and transform.

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**Traditional Chinese (unchanged, as requested):**

大多数指责并非源於洞察，而是源於認知的懶惰。
如果一個人對小事情挑剔，而不對需要認知門檻的事情加以深刻思考，那麼他就會表現得"聰明"卻實際上固步自封。
認識到這一點後，我在做出批評時，總會考慮我的批評意見是否是結構性的、本質性的、建設性的。如果不是，說明我僅僅在通過批評得到"我很優越"的存在感，而不是通過批評去理解、分析和嘗試改變問題。
意識不到這一點的人們熱衷於評頭論足，無論在餐桌還是在社交媒體上，於是就形成了"爹味"。"爹味"是一種利用批評和大道理顯示自身認知優越感的行為。
去理解、去分析、去反思，然後去批評、去改變。