What feels delayed may simply still be developing.

There is a real difference between something stalled and something still forming, and from inside they feel the same. Development spends most of its time invisible, so what registers as delay is often just the part before anything shows. Reading it as failure is the mistake, not the waiting.

Ask what evidence would tell you the difference. Usually it is whether the inputs are still happening: whether work is being done, whether conversations are still occurring, whether anything at all has shifted over months rather than days. If the inputs continue, treat it as developing. If they have stopped, then you have something real to address.