I am not blaming you for anything but I listened to your advice when u kept saying "Don't rush in filling your ds260" which left some of us now in limbo and stressed. Instead, I would suggest you should have told us "You should fill your ds260 immediately, and the faster you do, the more chance that you will be ready (dr and dq) early". Now I will register for dv2023 and believe me the day they will declare winners I will not sleep and will wait to see if I won and if I am a winner, I will directly login to the ds260 to fill it to be the first one who submits his ds260 in the world
From the perspective of the one who submitted DS-260 early, I wish I was aware of that advice. Let just explain how submission in the early days of May looks like. You need to log in at some odd hours, as the system is unresponsive and cannot process even simple login. As a European, it was tough to find that period, as there are a lot of AOS applicants that are currently in the US, and also lot of Asian applicants, so you can't just shift to their time zone. European and African timezones overlap, and it's impossible to do anything during those hours, so you have to get up early, 4-5 AM, and you have 1-2 hours where the system is responsive.
But hey, responsive means that you can log in, and eventually fill one page... then cool off period while you are attempting to log in again, and continue where you left. Without additional browser tools for form automation competition, macros, etc.., it is impossible to do anything. And all of that means that process is extremely error-prone, especially when you start filling for derivatives, where form tools get confused. So there are high chances that you will end up with a DS-260 application that has errors in it, which would lead to unlocking, which basically is the worst possible option as nobody is sure how it affects DR/DQ process.
It took me 2-3 days to complete the submission, which ended up with some minor errors in it, and I didn't want to unlock it as I hope I will clear that up if I get a chance to get to the interview. If I ever get the chance again, I won't consider submitting it early.