I should note that the aforementioned new project manager I referred to is allegedly described as "clueless" by a lot of people who are working on the ride. Having apparently never been involved in a project like this before and with zero understanding of how resource allocation and management works. They only became involved with the project very recently. We shall see. If that rumor Drew heard ends up being correct, it's probably because said manager got their way. Hopefully they did not.
You are indeed correct about this making no sense, it's just that someone new with apparently a lot of power over this project is lacking in sense from what I was told.