Civil engineering projects and bringing consumer products to market are both exactly the sort of thing the planning fallacy applies to. I would just say what you’ve experienced is the planning fallacy, then. (It’s not about the world, it’s about our methods of forecasting—when forecasting how long it will take to complete a project, humans seem to be systematically biased towards optimism.)
Civil engineering projects and bringing consumer products to market are both exactly the sort of thing the planning fallacy applies to. I would just say what you’ve experienced is the planning fallacy, then. (It’s not about the world, it’s about our methods of forecasting—when forecasting how long it will take to complete a project, humans seem to be systematically biased towards optimism.)