Yes I agree. I think it does not give an useful measure of what we should expect. It gives an idea of how much we are all delayed though. Sometimes it seems like I am the only one, but we are all in the same situation.
At this point I am less worried. They can't hold pending applications forever. Originally they might have planned to secretly sweep FSW program under the rug and cancel pending applications when the time's right, but they have missed the best chance to do so. I am sure now they have realized when the Afghanistan excuse stops holding up, they will have to discuss all that they have done in bright daylight soon. Provinces have been pissed off that's why they started processing PNPs and never bothered screwing FSW at Montreal VO. I can't wait but see lawyers and conservative MPs gang up with tech companies and other FSW-favoring industries to pressure the media to give them a really bad look to the public.