I agree in theory and there are certainly teams where this could happen, but what happened on this team was that the bugs were found so quickly than the fixes w

I agree in theory and there are certainly teams where this could happen, but what happened on this team was that the bugs were found so quickly than the fixes were also quick (I would always get a bug report the same day and often within the hour), making shipping stuff with few bugs relatively painless. Was there pressure to keep releasing? Yes. But with the rapid feedback, it never became too onerous to get them done anyway.