Even if you ignore the COVID and supply chain problems — which I’d argue are pretty OK reasons for schedule slippage — they never were that clear from what poin

Even if you ignore the COVID and supply chain problems — which I’d argue are pretty OK reasons for schedule slippage — they never were that clear from what point you should count the two years: the announcement or the first availability of a Mac on the new architecture. If it’s the latter, they still have some months.