There can be many little things that we don't know about this application, but for instance: his AOR is October. Since all processing stopped in end of January and in middle of February IRCC made announcements on CEC prioritization, anyone who managed by luck to pass any stages before middle of February - just got what he/she got.
So, if he/she was super lucky and snappy, with October AOR his Medical would get approved somewhere in November (R10 passed same time), so he/she would get Biometrics letter then. If he/she submitted it almost at the same time when he received the letter (in November), then that would trigger first agent's check on Criminality and Eligibility. If his PCC and Eligibility were very simple to process and didn't raise any questions (this guy seams to be from France and as a person who also submitted PCC from France, which can be obtained online within 1 day, I know that such PCC doesn't raise questions as it can be verified online) - he could have passed both Criminality and Eligibility in December-January, which would trigger Security check. So, yes, considering his timeline, he could have passed most stages before they stopped processing files, but that doesn't mean that his file was processed anywhere after middle of February.
We don't know how IRCC treats files which passed all stages besides Security. So, if he passed all by end of January, maybe the officers just couldn't ignore his application and just couldn't not send it to the Security stage. But, even with that, if he passed all stages, he won't get PPR until France has restrictions of entry to Canada. I don't think most of applicants here are from EU and that it would make your lives easier if EU residents could move from their countries to Canada, while you would still not be allowed the same.
If you get every case like this one by one, you can find an explanation if you know the details of the case. For example, I can tell you from my experience - that by now I would have passed Criminality in the end of January too, if one of my PCCs wouldn't be from Middle East and wouldn't raise Review Required (at that time it was a scan provided by foreign Consulate as the original PCC didn't reach the Consulate in 3-months time). But because that happened, anything I resubmitted at a later stage (the original PCC that came after 5 months) wasn't reviewed so far, so this stage remains opened. If I would have passed Criminality then, they would have closed Info Sharing and by now I would only remain with second check on Eligibility and Security.
I wouldn't prefer to live in illusions that IRCC processes FSW-O, better to know the reality, waste less money on new GCMS notes and continue living as before knowing that any immigration move won't happen earlier than in the middle-end of 2022. I see some guys even left jobs in January thinking they'll move in 5 months to Canada. That is exactly what you shouldn't do. And shouldn't fully rely on immigration in a short time.
Webform answers never tell anything, they always reply "valid" which just means documents were accepted and passed R10 stage (completeness, it doesn't mean that they are good - just means that you submitted the minimum amount of documents originally required for the program - nobody actually verified if they are good to let you pass the stages). So you can raise many webforms or make many calls, but you won't get a straight answer to your questions, because agents will just say that you have "Passed" in Eligibility (same as per GCMS notes) even when it's just the first stage of check, which isn't the definitive one.
This should be the indicator of IRCC's activity:
https://myimmitracker.com/en/ca/trackers/consolidated-e-apr-tracker-express-entry-permanent-residency-application
As you can see on MyImmitracker - no PPRs were issued since February in FSW-O. Whenever we will see them being issued again - that is when IRCC will start to process our files again.
