I'm not being negative, I'm being realistic. Some people receive MR early in the process but then wait for a year with no updates. Others wait long and at the end of the wait time they receive everything at once: MR, eligibility, etc.
If your suggestion that they've sped up the process were true, then they wouldn't have changed their timeline to 19 months.
I'm talking about facts that I saw at the beginning of the year. While for me it took so long to get file number for others was fast this year. Anyway, that is your opinion. Have a great day.