Tulermarine:
If the pilot is not happy with something then he/she should write it up in the Log on the basis that that document is the pilot-to-maintainer-to-pilot's serviceability communication tool.
That is axiomatic.
The real question is, what happens afterwards? Is the entry closed with "tested, found serviceable"? Or is it transferred to ADD with "please report further"?
The point is, is the techlog merely a pilot-to-maintainer communication tool, or is it, as you suggest, a pilot-to-maintainer-to-next-pilot communication tool?
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