I like this. Deadlines are set by humans and inherently flawed. It isn't right to go into crunch mode when a deadline isn't met - instead how the deadline was set and how it can be improved should be revisited.

It all depends on context. Most project deadlines are artificial bullshit anyway.

And the reasons why a project is not on schedule may not be due to the behavior of people dropping their work at 5pm.

Even so, tough luck: in NL most work to live, we don’t live to work like in some other countries.

I really resonated with the original question of ASK HN.

I think that's the right approach. The alternative is crunch, but you can't have a workplace non-workaholics want to work at that does crunch.