This is one of those things that won't ever be "solved" as people just want different things here, hence we can steer the models with the system prompt.
I'm mostly the same as you, I don't want the model to assume things, or act on implicit "directions". But then also, sometimes I do, and I myself might not always know when what approach is best.
Indeed some people think they want a machine guessing at your intentions and acting upon that guess. Those people
Are wrong in at least 2 directions: that it is what they want, and their implicit assumption that it could possibly be safe.
Indeed, I don’t ask rhetorical questions to an AI. They are of doubtful use when talking verball ly to a human, less good in online discussions, and totally unnecessary for agents.
That's exactly what i want to happen. I hate when it assumes my direct question was an indirect instruction