I don't think it was in their hands. Shivi has mentioned many times how Sai is very fussy about scenes and does a lot of takes to get it right. Because they had to shoot two episodes a day, I think SaiShi were not allowed to have that many retakes to make a scene perfect like they always do. The makers also didn't want to overwork SaiShi so we have other meaningless scenes by other characters filling up the episode. I'm just pissed at them giving that summary scene at the beginning. That was absolutely unnecessary. Since SaiShi were already in that scene, they could have shown them spending some time together or at least having a proper conversation instead.
Yeah... I also think the same that because of time constraints they couldn't ask for perfection... I can see where all it is leading... People till yesterday were asking for extension and now I can see that people are asking to not butcher much and get this done... Makers ke jalwe hain bhai... That summary part is what I was saying that even SaiShi couldn't make it watch worthy... I felt like an eye sore watching it. Nahi dete... Kya farak padta... We would have assumed that as we assumed n lot of things till now...