I think the fear is that they won't restart FSW because Canada is throwing out ITAs to inland categories, rendering FSW obsolete. A little baseless and irrational, but present nonetheless.
Very true.
But on the bright side, it clearly shows how reliant this whole 1-million three years target is on FSW.
They basically had to remove the "experience" part just to get more applicants within Canada.
IRCC gave reassurance to both future outland applicants and in-progress applicants that as soon as travel restrictions are eased they will invite them and also finalize applications. No one knows when that will happen. Even IRCC has no definite timeline because it directly depends on how well Canada deals with the virus and the vaccine. As many pointed out, I too have the opinion we will hear good news for outland around September-October when the majority of the adults have already been vaccinated.