My brother's card arrived today! That was a quick and smooth process.
Now I'm worried about mine since I need it more urgently haha... still no update on ECAS and it's bothering me that our applications were sent together, and yet one has been approved so quickly and the other is, optimistically, still lying in the mailroom and nothing more serious. Even more concerning when you start seeing people from June (congrats nonetheless!) on here saying they've started receiving their new cards, but at least I'm not alone