Can I just point out that traditionally the working arrangement described is pretty rare!
At least to me, it's a very well known phenomenon for people involved in the production of a project to dislike
almost everything that was recorded when they weren't in the studio.
So hats off to the success of your dysfunctional working unit!
Was it often a case of "its pretty good but.... Just needs a tweak here and there" (and then the absent members would mangle the audio to their satisfaction? Or get a re record for a section / all of it)