Vice President's perspective on the same incident is at right. Let us optimize the product and process so we have a quality launch. That's the way it's supposed to work. It never does work that way. The engineers keep changing things, most of the time for good and relevant reasons.
Manufacturing drives some changes.
And so you have this constant battle of late failures, problems, fits, and finishes. There is huge pressure from Manufacturing to drive the change count down. This comment draws the reader's attention to the implicit meaning of the Vice President's quote. In effect, he was disagreeing with the Epsilon team's view about CRs, but not saying so directly. These types of unspoken disagreements are typical in any major change event within an organization.