...I don't really get your logic. Just because the chapters are short, doesn't mean the episodes will be...~? They could just go through more chapters per episode.
The episodes are 4-5 pages long. In a normal manga adaptation, they adapt 2 chapters of 20 pages. So, will they have to adapt almost 10-20 chapters in one episode? And it's not like the manga has that many chapters either—there are only 115 so far. I don’t know, that’s just my perspective.
That's basically what I'm expecting. Granted, an announcement doesn't equate a release anytime soon. Anime could still enter production end of this year and come out 2026 giving it ample time to have more chapters to do a full length episode adaptation. Otherwise yeah, tv shorts would probably feel the more appropriate