But are they writing an article? Does anyone want to publish it?...

But are they writing an article? Does anyone want to publish it?
Surely the writing and editing of the paper is not from scratch. All of the lit review, methods etc would’ve been available with analysis and discussion to go.
This team lead us to believe results would be available nearly 6 months ago. I assume that meant they had most information and only needed the final “numbers”. So why take so long?
I’m sure I’ll be lectured on how writing a paper takes time: save your breath, it USUALLY doesn’t take this long if you know what you’re doing or are keen to publish.
Again, I hope I’m wrong but it’s worrying.