It's always a challenge balancing "What's the right thing to do?" with "What's the right thing to do right now?". Age and experience certaingly gives a much more rounded perspective. (I reflect on Younger Me as being much more black and white about what's right and wrong. It gets more nuanced with age...)

This story does beg many questions about culture and leadership for the environment, let alone the commercial question on having the (presumably significant?) overall program burn rate ticking along while your client bided their time... but an interesting story nonetheless.

Thank you for sharing and looking forward to the next installment.