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One attitude seems to be clear from the comments. Each of you seem to believe that time limits are there simply to fill a few spaces on a sheet of paper.
There was a time, admittedly many, many years ago that time limits were sacrosanct .
When I was being trained as a litigation clerk back in 1954 my then managing clerk explained the importance of time limits in court orders. I was told that failure to obey was punishable by instant dismissal.
In 1955 a firm acting for the other party in litigation was ordered to deliver papers to us, on behalf of our client to the litigation, by 4.0 p,m on a certain date, which happened to be a Friday. Their clerk delivered them at 4. 05 p.m. Acceptance of service was refused as it was out of time. Everyone in our firm knew what the possible consequences would be for the clerk in the other firm. No one in our firm was happy but "compliance with court orders was sacrosanct"
I found no difficulty complying with time limits: why should any one else?
As for budgets, a properly prepared case starts being prepared after the first conference with the client and not the day before a trial.
It would appear that some people are about to join the real world, at last.