I recently worked with a freelancer who disappeared with the spec, only to return two weeks later with the finished article. We went our separate ways.
I asked for regular updates and got nothing but the “finished product.”
My current freelancer asks questions, voices concerns, and shares drafts. No one fully forms a spec, details don’t overwhelm us, and questions don’t sound too silly. We learn in the gaps of understanding. “I like that,” “Can we…,” “I wonder if…”