Shadowlands is the second expansion in WoW from wangyue's blog

In a blog post by WoW content creator MrGM explained the days that pass between alpha testing for previous expansions , and an expansion's date of release. The number ranges from 188 days at the earliest and 281 at the latest. There are 192 days remaining in 2022 as a comparison. Another article from Reddit user Jeth84 compared release dates for all of WoW's previous expansions which shows that when Dragonflight will be released this year, it's very much on schedule in the normal two-year period between expansions. 

On paper Dragonflight's release date of 2022 appears to WOTLK Gold be exactly on time. But, it's important to keep in mind the development challenges Blizzard has faced over the last several years which could have potentially affected the development of Dragonflight for instance, a significant part of the team who work from home because of COVID-19 along with other issues (including staff walkouts and strikes) that result from the numerous litigations and investigations that have been a constant problem for Blizzard for the last 11 months.

However, there are some factors that make players positive about the chances of Dragonlfight coming out in 2022. A lot of players have speculated that Dragonflight could be a lot further forward than originally thought due to Blizzard moving resources away from Shadowlands in the last two years in order to concentrate more specifically on its new expansion. 

Shadowlands is the second expansion in WoW history to receive two content updates during its duration. Although Blizzard claims having only two patches of content was the goal for Shadowlands, many fans believe that a third update (which is standard of expansions) was buy WOW WOTLK Classic Gold cut in order that Blizzard could reallocate the development budget to Dragonflight.