Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
"Normal and Savage mode will be implemented on the same day. Yoshida is aware that he received a lot of feedbacks regarding players don't have enough time to prepare but since the flow was already decided for the entire expansion (meaning the entire Shadowbringers) they cannot just simply change it. However they will look into this for future plans."

Quoted from the reddit LL transition.
So they just repeated what they said about Savage implementation in previous live letters for previous Patches. Unfortunately just hot air as they seem like a broken record at this point.