I always mentally replace "impact" with "affect" and it tends to have a... positive impact... on readability.

I enjoy what I call the tone-deaf impacts, like these newspaper reports:

* Advanced weapons provided to Ukraine are having an impact on the Russians.

* An Australian man who threw a wine bottle from a balcony in Singapore and killed a person on the ground said he was sorry for the impact it had on the victim's family.

Oh well, it's Friday now. I have to find something to pretend to do until 5 o'clock.

Greg