Too bad you can’t decide number of pages AFTER the content is cohesive. You aren’t victims of your own system, unless said system is fractured. The “We have no control over our own process” excuse shouldn’t be offered publicly: it feels entirely unprofessional.
In my opinion, rapidly producing incomplete products isn’t good for your brand, and is possibly even counterproductive. It’s definitely sloppy.
Hopefully this .pdf doesn’t share the print obfuscation error present around most of the artwork in PFS modules when they are printed out (w/ professional version of Acrobat). Still an unsolved problem.