Rockstar actually went into hiring frenzy after the last delay, and it wasn’t just QA people this time but very fundamental positions like senior physics programmers, art leads, UX engineers and so.

I actually had many friends interviewed, some hired but most scared off as R* people made it pretty clear they’re walking into a mess.

To me, R* is trying to give birth to a baby in 1 month by hiring 9 pregnant people.

In VO terms I would highly doubt capturing performances would delay anything at all, but creating/revising rest of the cinematics is a burden for the devs. And R* would know better VO isn’t a part to go skimpy.