This is the main point I want to drive home. Your theories are just as valid as me saying: “Fatshark Suits just wants to make a quick buck by grabbing as many people as possible to buy their game and the devs who care have their hands tied”
We don’t know because they won’t say anything and I promise that the theories the community can come up with will be far more damaging in the long run than speaking up and taking the flak, and the longer they wait to speak up (going on 2 years for Solo Mode hearing anything other than “Not a priority”) the worse the flak will get.
An immediate: “Sorry guys, I know we said solo mode would be available in December at the latest but there were some hiccups with it that we weren’t happy with and unfortunately more pressing issues have taken the priority, we’ll be putting Solo Mode on an indefinite hold until we can allocate resources to it.” would be far more acceptable in 2022 than in 2025+