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In the Bookshelf & Marketplace thread about Dan Sharp's Me 262 book, [USER=32143]@HoHun[/USER] has some more information about this:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/messerschmitt-me-262-development-politics-by-dan-sharp.40062/page-2#post-677240[/URL]

TLDR:

Sweeping the Me 262's wings moved the CoG in the wrong direction, Ludwig Bölkow wrote wing-sweep was in fact chosen because the aircraft was expected to be fast enough to benefit from swept wings.

Then we have Woldemar Voigt's opposing view.


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