Our paper covered a phenomenon within their aims and scope. They published papers in the relevant phenomenon before as well, but they still desk-reject on the ground of unfit aims and scope. Entirely ungrounded reasons for desk-rejection. And obviously, it took too much time for a desk-rejection. They have 4 EICs, but they do not have particularly more submissions than other journals in similar tier.
When the EICs earn a wage from the publisher, please do their job.