Very good points, but if I may add some opinion to this content, I’d say that everyone is at their core, a problem solver and a design thinker as a result of that. Designers are facilitators, which is correct, but more than that, they’re catalysts that understand the strength that lies in having multiple insights that will hopefully converge to find an optimal solution. Also and most importantly, Designers can leverage those seemingly disparate sources of information and make a consistent thread of them all, with a unified goal that aims to solve a problem that has been made aware to all the partners on the process.