Yes Pat is an engineer, but who is feeding him his information?
Case in point, he told Wall Street that SPR was on track for early this year. Clearly someone in engineering had to know that was not realistic.
Until the BS slinging clowns in upper management are purged, you can expect more failures. Pat can’t operate the company with misleading data.
He should do a wide scale purge of senior management and perform direct 1:1 engineering interviews like Musk at Twitter. Anything less is a path to failure.