The only way, and I mean the only way, this gets blocked is because a manager (not a dev) assesses the risk of improper fixing to be higher than the reward of n

The only way, and I mean the only way, this gets blocked is because a manager (not a dev) assesses the risk of improper fixing to be higher than the reward of not doing a shit ton of work justifies. A significant portion of that is making sure the manager is fully cognisant of what the quick fix means. Alice's job is to ensure that happens. The managers job is to advocate to his bosses that this has to be done and is a net win to do it properly. It is as likely manager person failed in advocacy as it is she failed in information transfer, but there are plenty of gradients here.