Valve won't be releasing a Steam Deck with more performance until at least 2025. Given the smartphone market's reputation for disappointing incremental updates, this is the right choice. Valve should, however, throw gamers a bone with a Steam Deck 1.5.
“Delay” is a weird term to use. It was never even hinted that there would be one soon.
Delay is a weird way to phrase “not planned any time in the next few years.”