Agreed - for some reason it is easier for people to blame the tax preparer than to acknowledge that it's the IRS that is behind. Between delays still from last year, stimulus checks, etc, the IRS is late.
I filed and was accepted on 2/12. Got my state refund the week of 3/1. No federal refund on 3.5 as expected. On 3/7 or 3/8, it changed to "pending," no bars, no tax topic. I did speak with a human at the IRS who told me that there is nothing wrong with my return, they are just way behind. She advised that they expected to be caught up by this Friday.
So they had us wait so they could update the software yet also told everyone to file early, and then got hit with a holiday weekend and a massive backlog. It absolutely stinks - we've given the gov't an interest free loan for a year and they can't manage to get us our money on time. Hopefully they will really get it sorted out promptly.
