Context would matter here, but the above question on its own wouldn’t typically rise to bad faith, even if phrased as written. The job of the PM often demands

Context would matter here, but the above question on its own wouldn’t typically rise to bad faith, even if phrased as written. The job of the PM often demands creating project schedules, delegating assignments, spurring their team to deliver assigned tasks on time, and managing the team. It very much is their business to have some sense of how long things take, why they take so long, and get a sense whether the bottleneck is a personnel skill or motivation issue or the technical nature of the problem space. A good faith answer would likely include an explanation why shipping a button took 3 weeks, would likely explain the relevance of those HTTP calls in your use case, and would help to give them a better sense of the work involved so they can better mentally cost out new interface items without creating expectations you’d be unlikely to meet.