Yes I can empathise with you. I don’t think we will truly know but there is suggestion of 400,000 backlog and I can imagine trying to determine who should get priority would be a logistical nightmare, especially the people who didn’t renew as didn’t think it would go ahead.
As someone who has personally worked throughout this (running a psychiatric hospital) and had to quickly adapt and rapidly learn I do feel for them I have to say but the prospect of losing travel doesn’t help when waiting does it.
I have a trip on 31st July and 19th August. I’ll update when the passport is actually delivered.