Or incompetent. If you knew this was going to break, why did you approve it? Your only defense is "there was a lot pressure to get into the release xyz". There'

Or incompetent. If you knew this was going to break, why did you approve it? Your only defense is "there was a lot pressure to get into the release xyz". There's not much sympathy for that defense. The animal spirits that thought the broken feature were the most important thing ever are long gone, and frustrations about the new outage caused by the previously most important feature ever have taken over.