Tell me about a time you had to balance quality and delivery pressure.

The useful distinction was between quality that protected authorization, irreversible outcomes, and recovery, and polish that could safely wait. We reduced scope before lowering the safety bar and then checked whether the deferred experience created real user pain. That makes the follow-up backlog evidence-based instead of treating every deferred item as either mandatory debt or permanently optional. If the deadline had required weakening a safety invariant, I would have proposed delaying or disabling the capability.