I feel there are many people in this thread who have only been in the hobby a few years. If you do some research you'll fnd Stern developed this pattern ten years ago. Many of the good games now were not so hotly reveared when they came out. Even LOTR and SM took some time to blossom into what you see today. Those were some of the success stories, there have been many since that didn't fare so well, yet.
So don't be amazed. I feel empathy and am grateful for the opinions expressed about what is missing. But buyers of pins with incomplete code have enabled Stern to continue this as standard procedure.