Well, this way, they will presumeably have a week of hearings, and give the Democrats enough rope to hang themselves, and they bluff and bluster, and Corey Booker auditions for the part of Spartacus. This is not necessarily bad news to have this schedule.
If they had a vote in the next few days, then the media and Democrats would claim it was rushed through and they didn’t get any say on the nomination. This schedule takes away that argument.
I understand your point, but haven’t read and understand enough of the scheduling and procedural details to understand why it is October 29th, a full month away. Why couldn’t it be a week earlier? What are the time-irreducible things that have to be done before allowing debate and scheduling cloture?