>>94687344I 100% believe it. It's not only Phase, everybody in the vtuber industry talks about artist delays, and outright scams with things like merchandise outsourcing.
Remember the Eimi and Muyu cover of Identity? Apparently the music was ready for months; on stream Eimi drew the art of the music video; she took like 2 weeks, and 3 streams to finish it; once that was done the music video was released like a week later.
I don't claim to know how production works but I can see how in certain industries delays pile up because the people responsible get busy with other projects that have "higher priority".