So I am going to bump this thread cause I feel it is relevant to what is going on now.
I STILL hold onto the belief that much of all 3 delays has something to do with the state of the current gen consoles.
Instead of scope creep I think there was a case of performance/graphics creep for this game. As development continued they kept building this game on a PC and pushing the limits and showing all these videos and screenshots from super high end PCs. To the point when they began to bring things over to current gen consoles, they realized that their scope has seriously outpaced what the current gen consoles are able to handle. So they delay the game to get the consoles up to par while at the same time polishing the PC version.
So I stand by my belief that CDPR has not shown console footage yet because the visuals is....extremely subpar in terms of detail, NPC density, framerate, popins and so on.
While on the PC side, CDPR has not gone the Ubisoft route and highlight what are the requirements to play the game at 4k uktra because most likely it'll require a 3080 card and since MOST PC gamers do not have that, they do not want the negative PR.