The problem is that you think that those managers are nice and reasonable people like yourself. They are not. What will happen is that some manager will yell at

The problem is that you think that those managers are nice and reasonable people like yourself. They are not. What will happen is that some manager will yell at some other manager that will yell at some other manager that will yell at some tester that works on the cheapest virtual machine possible, on which it takes 5 minutes to log in and it disconnects after 2 minutes of idle. All the while, not changing anything. I'm pretty sure that all their resources are allocated to lawyers right now and their managers try really hard to gaslight their customers by telling them it was not that bad, they came up with the fix really fast (ignoring the fact that the fix was not possible to be applied) and so on.