E2E tests often fail because validators miss signing or proposing blocks. Often this is because e.g. there's a lot of disruption in the network or it takes a long time to start up all the nodes.
This changes the test criteria to only check for 3 signed/proposed blocks, rather than a fraction of the expected blocks. This should be enough to catch most issues, apart from performance problems causing nodes to miss signing/proposing, but we may want separate tests for those sorts of things.