Four years ago today GRRM dismissed a comment about it taking four more years... (Spoilers Extended)

On February 25, 2017, in the comment section on his NotABlog GRRM made the following comment in response to a fan's mention of The Winds of Winter:

I just picked up the first Wild Cards and I'm super excited to see what is in store. Also, we all completely understand if it takes four more years to write tWoW.

GRRM: It is not going to take that long... but please, this is a Wild Cards topic.

Obviously there are numerous other similar quotes like this throughout our history of SSMs and while Im really happy that he has completed "hundreds of pages" in 2020 and possibly several character story arcs as well, quotes like these are always a reality check for me.