He knows that he should have told her about the missing feature sooner. Instead, he has kept focusing on the many other improvements that his team was able to make, including accelerating several features that test users found extremely compelling. In his view, there are a number of areas where they over-delivered, and this outweighs the one area where they under-delivered. But he never had this conversation with Simone because, in truth, he had been dreading her reaction.
