it was kinda said in irony.
as you know i believe the fabric of ss's conversation is non-uniform. comments behave in varied ways.
we have metaphors for different kinds of statements, as you know.
pipelines never have anything worth mentioning in them.
carrots are entirely speculative and never make a feast.
but because it has specific measurement data, this one's a plum and the expectation of a plum is that it is real, but that it will fail deadline and value measures.
course, plums also have a corrosive effect on adjectives in the unsafe harbour. but unfortunately, metaphors get tricky at that stage and irony takes over.