&gt; And it was a valid Release Candidate<p>I think they messed up calling it a RC1 and leaving it as it is for so long. People started writing drivers and what not and were confident that the stack wouldn&#x27;t change too much, now they are going to wait the official release (i.e. at least a year) because the trust is broken. They should have called it a beta and not let it live for like a year. You don&#x27;t do that.<p>&gt; It should never be assumed that a Release Candidate is going to make it into production<p>Of course, but release candidate also means that there wont be any significant change in the tooling or philosophy. RC2 has completely different tooling and the code is completely incompatible. It doesn&#x27;t build up trust.