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Replies for: Okay, but I'm not doing it a dozen times in a row, I'm usually doing it once ... I think I'll stick to "he or she" whenever the need arises.

Ty for the info John!

After cross reading the wikipedia entey, I'm still on the side of considering the "singular they" an error 😂

There are many situations I can think of it being prone to confusion:

Let's do a BBQ with they, would you mind picking the burgers? -> you need to ask explicitly how many people.
Would you mind onboarding they to the project? -> How many people? Which is their background?