It's fine. We needed a sensitive intervention, not a specific one. And given the time constraints, those two were definitely in opposition. The administration made the right choice.
This is directly akin to using the defence of "i didnt realise the burning coal was hot". Common sense would have got you 99.9% of the way to not hurting yourself but you reached into the fire and grabbed it anyway. Given these are fiscal monetary "experts" they should have and could have done better. That includes delegating decisions and actions to those better able.
