Cheliax is incompetently managed, anywhere that somebody on the order of the Queen or Aspexia Rugatonn is not watching very closely. Sevar is unfamiliar with this because she went from her wizard school, managed by a wizard wearing probably a +6 intelligence headband, to the Worldwound, which is where a lot of the best managers are being expended, and then straight to Project Lawful. Sevar has never in her entire life tried to serve on, let alone manage, a temple project inside the capital of some random County in the Chelish boondocks, where there's three layers of higher management between you and Egorian, never mind the Queen.
Maillol's got this one.
He can be totally realistic about this.