User blog comment:Eobard95/Is Arrowverse ending soon?/@comment-25224899-20181216055219/@comment-34634914-20181216142637

Also Nora mentioned in The Flash that Cicada was supposed to come a lot later than originally, and they've implied that it was supposed to be David Hersch and not Orlin Dwyer. Maybe her jacking up the timeline somehow not only accelerated events, but changed the circumstances.