I've worked in the music industry for 25 years. It's been baffling to see Morrissey bungle so many "announcements" over the past, what, 6 years? Getting this shit done right is so easy, any 17 year old with a smartphone could release things in a better way than Morrissey. Why announce a week at the Apollo, when that was clearly never going to happen? Would it really be so hard to just wait a second and get the final, confirmed routing from the agent before posting? All the endless single, b-side, "I confirm I am thinking of playing a week in Matt's backyard in Sydney" announcements that never pan out... WHY? For someone who complains about how every. single. label. he has been on has bungled the release, he has certainly shown he can't do any better himself. I assume this is why some managers leave before any announcement was made that he even hired them. This is all coming from M's end I'm sure, "Waiting to get the dates right before the announce" is Management 101.
*EDIT* After getting my head around the dates, clearly what happened is that M' agreed to the remix to attempt to breathe life into the new album after it got lost in the pandemic shuffle. So they announced on May 19 it would be released June 5. Then they smartly decided to hold off on releasing the remix on June 5 because of the current state of the world. Which makes sense, but if you announce something, you also have to announce it's being postponed. That he leaves this stuff to his nephew apparently is shocking. If Sam has time to photoshop Morrissey's catalogue on cassette into Chewbacca's bandoleer, he has time to post "oh hey, that thing we announced has been pushed back. stay tuned".