Lmaoooo she's not working on R8 for 2 years, but for 9/10 months actually.
And it has nothing to do with how long she's working on it. If the album is dropping in April or May, there's nothing wrong with the fact that she's still recording.
Plus the album packaging is done, it has a release date, and probably an album title.
I really don't get why some of y'all are still talking about a summer release when the tour starts at that time. Complete nonsense and delusion.