> the team has shown that they have reflected upon it My point exactly. Miyazaki offered them genuine feedback ("a dose of reality") and they, to their credit,

> the team has shown that they have reflected upon it My point exactly. Miyazaki offered them genuine feedback ("a dose of reality") and they, to their credit, apparently acted on it. It was hardly, as the OP posted, "ugly behavior"; if anything, it was "beneficent behavior".