I am serious. There very likely are people working at Frontier who probably knew and forecasted exactly what launch would be like and expressed their fears to their supervisors. However, my guess is that top management was more interested in shareholder satisfaction, perhaps other short term gains and vastly underestimated the sophistication of Elite Dangerous Commanders.Can't tell if you are being serious or not...
People who actually do the work are often between the anvil and the hammer.