To me, this whole situation seemed absurd. Both himself and his team were too busy to do their work properly and with any level of quality that wouldn’t only make matters worse.
as long as you are doing your work well and continuously working on the next most important thing prioritised by the business, any pressure to deliver beyond what your team is capable of is objectively unreasonable.
then, there are no more levers for you to pull that do not result in a degraded quality-of-life
In some scenarios you need to grind. Maybe you’re a start-up trying to meet a deadline for a demo,