Another interesting thought, guys:
According to FSW draws stats given
here, IRCC stopped to send ITAs in March, 2020, there was a pause of 3 months, and then IRCC returned to send ITAs since August to December. And the total number of ITAs sent after the pause was 49,400.
As we have about 55k people in the FSW backlog, only about 6k of them have AORs before June (or July... I don't actually remember how many days I have after getting an ITA for creating a PR application). So, the vast majority of people stuck in the FSW backlog are those who got their ITAs in the 2nd half of 2020.
BUT as we see on this forum and other sources where happy people write posts about when they've got golden mails, the majority of them have AORs before the aforementioned pause. So, my assumption is that some VOs try to finalize backlogged applications according to the "early in, early out" strategy. And since there're only 6k of them, we'll see a real PPR rain pretty soon for those of us who got their ITAs in 2nd half of 2020. I think that IRCC will have cleared that 6k part of the FSW backlog by the end of January, if the current PPR issuing tempo remains the same. So, the PPR rain seems to get even stronger and more visible for us in February. And of course we shouldn't forget about the prediction that the CEC backlog will be cleared in February. In that case, there's a great chance that we'll see CO-CO-COMBO PPR cataclysm in late February-early March!
Nevertheless, we also see people with October, November and even 2021 AORs. In my opinion, it could be explained that some VOs don't follow the "early in, early out" strategy or thay may have no applications from that time period in their processing inventory or they already finalized all of them and shifted to the following applications from the 2nd half of 2020.