A great description! I've worked with someone who abused the Socratic method, and it was infuriating. Especially considering he wasn't a particularly good technologist, his only claim was that he was the manager.
I'm remembering all the days spent with him asking leading questions, where after the first question it was immediately obvious he wanted us to "realize" a seriously inferior solution. It felt very patronizing, and a huge waste of time as I'd immediately start to explain why his end result couldn't work for some glaring reason, but he'd be certain I somehow misunderstood the problem and keep asking questions. Sometimes he was right, and legitimately guided the team to a better solution, but maybe only 1/3rd of the time. Whew.
I'm remembering all the days spent with him asking leading questions, where after the first question it was immediately obvious he wanted us to "realize" a seriously inferior solution. It felt very patronizing, and a huge waste of time as I'd immediately start to explain why his end result couldn't work for some glaring reason, but he'd be certain I somehow misunderstood the problem and keep asking questions. Sometimes he was right, and legitimately guided the team to a better solution, but maybe only 1/3rd of the time. Whew.