I think you may have missed the point: the team with other work to do also insisted on taking on this work, and that team prevented our protagonist from taking the requisite two days to do the work.

If they were the dashboard team, I understand that they wanted to own it. Otherwise they end up being seemingly accountable for something they didn't do. Now it becomes this snowflake dashboard that is not owned by the dashboard team. Not saying they were right, just that I can see an argument.