Perhaps nobody was rushing the pilots, but I know from experience - as do all LAEs past and present - that everybody was rushing the engineers. The big curse of the industry is the accursed "Delay Meeting" driven by senior management and with BIG fingers pointing at the man on the front line with the screwdriver. There's not many that can resist the pressure.
Delays are inevitable when it comes to complex machinery; the greater the complexity, the greater the unreliability and its time we learned to live with it. Not many aeroplanes depart on flights today that don't have at least one page of ADDs lurking in the back pages of the tech log, simply because engineering are denied the time to investigate and rectify them before departure. An MD once said in my presence "You engineers are far too concerned with airworthiness items, instead of concentrating on the important things. That's what the M.E.L is for!" By important things he was referring to cabin trim, seat recline and on-time departure.