Chrome Extension Store in the last 2 months is delaying publishing new uploaded extension versions for days or weeks, with no specific reason.

This is a nightmare for apps relying on extensions to work, imaging a time-to-release of at least 7 days.

The mailing list is full of daily inquiries about "Pending Review" status

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-extensions/Pending$20Review%7Csort:date

Is there any way around this? other than targeting other browsers like Firefox or Edge?