> if only they had the resources.

My point isn't that the resources are fixed, I can do more with less than the vast majority of people, it's that the job holder had no say in what resources were allocated. When you're not part of the planning, you're not part of leadership, and that entire meeting was a fraud because no one there actually had the proper agency to succeed.

Engineers instead of saying this requirement is infeasible and a bad approach will jack up the story points hoping the requirement goes away.

And, in fairness, it being Microsoft, it probably will.