Maybe they changed their mind about that halfway through (and they were particularly resistant to the sunk cost effect). I agree that’s not very likely, though (probability < 10%).
(BTW, the emphasis looks random to me. I’m not a native speaker, but if I was saying that sentence aloud in that context, the words I’d stress definitely mostly wouldn’t be those ones.)
Thanks for the feedback on the bold formatting! It was supposed to highlight keywords, sort of a TL;DR. But as that is not clear, I shall state it explicitly.
Maybe they changed their mind about that halfway through (and they were particularly resistant to the sunk cost effect). I agree that’s not very likely, though (probability < 10%).
(BTW, the emphasis looks random to me. I’m not a native speaker, but if I was saying that sentence aloud in that context, the words I’d stress definitely mostly wouldn’t be those ones.)
Thanks for the feedback on the bold formatting! It was supposed to highlight keywords, sort of a TL;DR. But as that is not clear, I shall state it explicitly.