Seems to me, just like any manufacturing business, the goal is to keep the production line going. If I had forked over $10k for a BM66 LE and got it with v0.6 code I'd be pissed. And now they are working on getting Aerosmith on the line.
Stern invested all this money in a bigger factory to build more games and yet they failed to invest in the one thing that makes the product all run - solid programmers. God help 'em if anything happens to Lyman.