Dexter: Resurrection

Is it just me or does that seem like another show taking a REALLY DISPROPORTIONATELY LONG TIME before the next season?

The sci-fi's (Silo, Fallout etc) have an excuse (even if I don't buy it) with all the special effects.  But a live action, in modern times, no special costumes, armor, space ships etc. just has no reason for it.

Totally agree: There's no excuse for these kinds of long delays - scifi or otherwise

SciFi likes to claim its due to special effects.  It doesn't hold up to logic.  Most of these shows are only 10 episodes not 24. And they have technology that is 40 years more advanced than the shows we compare them to.  (New Trek versus TNG for example) - so better effects with newer tech should be a wash.  That's still before considering that much of a scifi show still takes place on sets: Corridors, bridge, cargo bay, and so on. There's very little VFX there short of a window or computer screen and now days I can do that from home on my laptop with a dozen different programs (though I prefer Davinci Resolve) - If they're not being The Expanse with their level of special effects then they're full of shyte. [Maybe first year Foundation as well]

Current time drama as you point you has absolutely no excuse.

I've said it before and since you brought it up I'll say it again:
The streamers have a formula for keeping their monthly renters paying each and every month on time.  They know they can get away with 10 month gaps, 8 episodes of 42 minutes with 2 of those 8 being 'budget saving'... so long as they also air another show in the same genre in between.
They can have Dexter hiatus for 10 months, so long as they have Counterstrike in the middle and when that ends they can have a 3 week break before starting The Terminal List... and when it ends another 3 week break before Blue Lights begins.  And they know at what point people vote with their wallets and just cut off that service.

So long as they rotate shows... they only need to generate content minutes like TikTok.
I'm not advocating for piracy - but I can *see* how the streamers brought it on themselves after it had been virtually eliminated.  Its like watching a virtually dead disease like measles come back strong because of the anti-vaxxers are saying its all a hoax: In their zeal to proove something they caused the opposite result.  Streaming service greed did it to themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMqybKnYhCE