In an ideal scenario, I totally agree with your post, it'd be great to be able to do more testing. But you do realize that most of us "developers" with N950 do so on our spare time, and do not make any money out of it.

How am I to find a 802.11n router if I don't have one at home? How am I to test if network connections work in my app through all the GSM/CDMA/3G/4G operators in the world? I don't have the budget, nor the time to have a proper QA setup. The best I can do is to test in my own environment, get my apps as ready as possible, and when the N9 is available to the general public, to be responsive in fixing bugs that will (not might, will) happen. The N950 just gives a little lead-out time to devs so that people buying the N9 on the first day have a few apps to play with.