[sfg]

He said that he couldn't have met the deadline without Svelte.

[orangepanda]

Of course it could have been done without Svelte. Thats the only stack their team know and/or wanted to work with. Nothing wrong with that, but would be nice if they were more upfront about that instead of "impossible for a different solution to exist".

There was a psychological term for it, making a decision first and only then finding supportive arguments in favour of the decision?

[sfg]

He’s worked with React and Svelte. He didn’t think he could get it done in time with React. How do you know he is wrong?