Do you need to be a good writer to offer good feedback

[milo]

Can you think of an example when you received great crit from someone you don't consider a good writer?

Not so much 'not a good writer' as 'not as good as the best ones on this forum' - to which belong, in my view, Mercedes, Ray, Todd, Milo, Tranquility Base, and - in recent years - Rivernotch, with Tiger the Lion also being a strong contender. I'm thinking of Ella here. Her feedback on what worked for her in a poem was as useful as anything else by the elite league of writers named above, with the exception of Rivernotch, whose feedback is painstaking and encyclopaedic.

Actually, I am glad you brought up ella, she is an excellent example.  Both one of the best at giving feedback as well as receiving feedback.

I think a lot of times I forget that giving feedback is a massive waste of time if you cannot convince the writer to be receptive of it.

Everyone was receptive to feedback from ella.

Thanks