Ah, so that’s what’s been happening!

My personal theory is that the rapture actually already happened but we didn’t notice because only QA was without sin.

We prefer to call it "engineering"

Keep the secret!

Always has been

That's exactly what has been happening for decades now and what things like scrum actively encourage to happen.

Given work item does not fit into allotted timebox? Relax Definition of Done until it does ¯\_(ツ)_/¯