Wonder if all of this makes for the system to be gamed even more than normal?It's hard to really fathom how screwed up the court scheduling is right now due to the COVID back log. The prosecutor's office is jumping out their own backside due to work-to-manpower ratio right now. Even getting a non-major felony/nobody in custody case SCREENED can take weeks.
Don't read anything in to continuances in "normal" times. Definitely don't read anything into them now. Currently, court rooms are often booked for 5 or more cases simultaneously figuring most of them will be resolved pre-trial. If you are 5th priority and any of the others go, you're getting bumped.