If you're not willing to wait, you can just sell the BTC for USD again, and then find someone to buy BTC from using Paxful or Localbitcoins.

What is your complain? The word soon in cryptocurrency can mean in an hour, next day, next month, in several years, some day. Nothing is wrong with PayPal, they did not gave exact date so there is nothing to complain about.

Since PayPal allowed only to buy and sell Bitcoin, and dont even allow to transfer among account, I assume that you have bought not a real Bitcoin, but just a number in your account with the name Bitcoin. An Air. But it still has a value within your account, because you can sell it.

Well, you've just faced the difference between "the commercial" and the reality.
Nothing wrong, nor unusual. They didn't even lie, just made you have unrealistic expectations. Sorry.

As said, if you want to withdraw to your wallet, you'll have to convert back to fiat, withdraw, then use another exchange platform (which will come with its own rules, hence you better read carefully their expectations - like KYC and residence limitations - and their fees, especially withdrawal fees). Just make sure you go to a reputable platform, not a shady one.

Or you can still keep the coins at PayPal for longer, maybe someday (soon, lol!) they will implement proper crypto withdrawals.

PayPal will take a lot of time for allowing BTC withdrawal since they will need a 3rd party or purchase there own BTC equivalent to there users currently holding Bitcoin. The price is so volatile that's why they are not that prepared for this since they just want to offer a virtual BTC to avoid the hassle on buying and selling it at the market. They will need to hold a huge amount BTC or hire a 3rd party that will offer BTC in exchange of fiat from them.

Exactly. I have said it before, there is a very strong possibility that PayPal never had a single satoshi to sell to its users or at the very least they hoped they could get people to deposit enough bitcoin in their platform to allow them to cover users' withdrawals. I believe one of the reasons they have not yet allowed withdrawals is that it could prove that PayPal has no bitcoin to pay out since unlike fiat bitcoin transactions can't be faked.

No other options for users like him. There is no way Paypal will really allow users to withdraw their BTC. I wouldn't expect something good from a company that is already losing relevance and will still do fair things to their clients. A company previously owned by Elon I think Elon still has a hold of the important decision within this company.  Paypal provides worse services when it comes to disputes and they are the ones whos scaming.

It's been known that if you buy bitcoin in PayPal, you're like holding it visually and in projection, there's no really bitcoin in your account. That development that they've promised should have rolled out soon if they want to increase their demand. Since many of the PayPal users also know about bitcoin, they should have done that and expedite the development. For the meantime OP, you have no choice but to wait for it to come. If they have given no assured time, just hope for the best that they'll surprise us with a positive news.

It can be stucked because of development issues technically or it can be canceled forever because of government regulations. They can change everything with new regulations so it is bad when you decide to use a centralized platform and it is worse because that platform has yet allowed you to withdraw your Bitcoin after purchasing.

If you use centralized platforms, when you finish you business trades, withdraw your fund, coin to your non custodial wallet.

Tbh, is never their intention right from the beginning to develop the service properly. They integrated Bitcoin because it presented the potential to be the next bigger thing to facilitate payment. Meanwhile, this is also what Paypal does,  in other to gain the trust of people using BTC and to keep their customers who might see Bitcoin potential as something incredible.
They join the system because they will lose the battle if they are against it.

Was never available to me in either of my PayPal accounts (one in EU and one in Asia) and despite knowing it wasn't actual BTC, I still thought it would be cool as another option.

As many have already said, "soon" can mean anything in crypto speak (I shall not mention ETF yardsticks) but if you want to clutch at straws, they already missed out their 2020 roadmap to have a digital wallet by 2021 BUT in May did say they would start it off with 3rd party crypto w/ds so, just wait I guess. Or sell for USD and just buy your own BTC.

Just this month said it was looking at stablecoins (blockchain-based), so we know they're keen to not let hope spring uneternally.