Err .. the media people take visual quality and aesthetics very, very seriously. The Director has a vision and the tech goes to amazing lengths to support it. It is a different world as the original post said.

And being a woman in the industry is absolute hell?

One of the things in media is that shit happens and you get what you get on an extreme timeline and you deal with it. One month is about 29.9 days too long. Someone accidentally encoded it with a codec you don't support? Too bad, you get it done.