Same thing happens to my partner. They're just fundamentally bad at estimating time and constantly do things that maximize their probability of being late.

Your story for example, almost nothing was outside your control.

That said only on some platforms is it possible to stop a native app from getting them.

Another example is startup time. Time to first frame on screen should be less than 20ms. That doesn't mean time until first content is rendered, but time until _all_ content is rendered (loading dialogs, placeholders, etc are better than nothing but entirely miss the point of being fast).

The second example is why even though I understand why developers pick tauri/electron/webviews/etc I can't get over how fucking slow the startup time is for my own work. None of them could show a blank window in under a second the last time I tried.

And in this mission in particular, you can't divorce science from politics. NASA's budget was reined in by Trump 45 and his admin picked Artemis because a manned mission to the moon invokes a particular feeling and memory, not because it benefits science. The moon is a known quantity, and going there is not more valuable than the other projects the government could have spent $100 billion on.

Keep in mind, this is one of the most expensive single launches in history while there is a partial government shutdown and the rest of the federal government that does real research has been gutted by this same administration. So it's tough to talk about "scientific value" when it's obvious that this mission is doing little science at the same time the government has decreed it won't be in the business of paying for science.