So I just watched Jenova Chen's DICE speech and I have to say the title of this thread and Laura Park's incredibly sensational tweet are incredibly misleading.
This is literally what Jenova said during his DICE speech: (verbatim quote)
"We had two choices. We could ship the game like this. Or we could spend an extra year to make the ending very exciting... at that time we were out of money. The budget was for two years, and we were like 'Should we really push for it' I have to thank Sony for actually extending the project two times, so that we could polish it."