If this proves to be the case, sounds like a last-minute audible (like the decision to keep it last year). My "after 11" source is solid ... but also said it would go on sale tomorrow. I have to think the delay is tied into that.
I do wonder--hope the better word--if they pair this announcement with some new form of AP access to Epic. There will be much gnashing of teeth among the AP whales (and on social media), but unlike Disney, I do wonder if some truly will walk away. TBH, I'm not sure even Disney ever fully recovered from its post-COVID AP debacle, and the Mouse has a lot more nostalgia-based loyalty.
CDC better set up shop in Orlando, about to see a Black Plague-level epidemic of IBS and autism in Team Members and APs.