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With people like that I just keep things very cheery and on-surface. "Thanks again for sharing your observations! I and our project team continue to appreciate your constructive suggestions and will take them under consideration." Some crap like that. (It's actually not quite a lie, since any genuinely constructive suggestions would be worthy of consideration.) That should put a stop to it, since the way you describe your work relationship with this person doesn't suggest to me that they are in a position to follow up with requests for status updates. In any event, my status update would continue to be "we're taking it under consideration; thanks again for kindly offering your feedback!" Fake smile; end scene.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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