I had a principal when I was an articled clerk who detested the subjunctive when writing advice: "We would advise you to." He got positively Yoda about it: "Advise, or do not advise, there is no "would" about it." But I think what he was responding against was diffidence or rather mock diffidence, rather than weaseliness.

Anyway, I was delighted to see that Fox for once disavowed the weaselly pair, smartish.