I've only read along on the IEM server, but can agree with you.
It's even worse. IEM22 was planned and announced with many leagues and most of them were cancelled in the end. The creator had already announced Nov22 to release IEM23 before Christmas.
I don't understand why he's been trying to get hype here since April when there isn't even a playable alpha version yet. Even if IEM comes out at some point. I will not play the mod anymore and have left the server. He may be a good modder, but when I read the other statements about planned features, about other mods and modder, I just can't play this mod anymore.
This is fake news
IEM 22 was announced with the following leagues :
Vanarama National League -> Added
NWSL -> Added then removed
UEFA Women's Clubs -> Added then removed
Superettan -> Added
Serie B -> Added
Greek League -> Cancelled, replaced with Balkan Super League
Egyptian League -> Cancelled, replaced with African Super League
Serie C -> Cancelled due to lack of time
Everything else announced was added
As for IEM 23 :
The Christmas announcement was very stupid for me, I am sorry, but I had no mod by then, and that was when I assumed that I had much more free time than reality
As for May, I assumed that it would be done by the end of May, but not everything was created then. We also needed to fix a lot of stuff. I took a break in June to focus on my university exams, then resumed work in July, where compdata was always breaking and it took me a very long time to fix it because I wanted to release a functional mod.
As for release, it will be very soon, especially when we are testing now.
I am extremely sorry for the delays and inconveniences in IEM 23.