In the scheduling dept vs. OPs war, OPs has prevailed in making the argument that there's no way to run the schedule the way it is now and that the current state of affairs is scheduling's fault, not OP's.

That view has prevailed, for now, and changes are afoot. If those changes don't help, larger changes (at OPs, then) will quickly follow-- the will to fix and the urgency of same has arrived (later than it should have, ironically )