What do you mean by dumbed or not? Dumbed like what? Yes they do have support, yes they promote. Yes they made people to run after companies and wait in lines just for piece of hw, while once companies where running after customers, but now thye do what ever they want.
No one said it's possible, than why no reduce price, or not go at such scales. Why no reveal specifications before pre-order? And even now not all of them revealed ( it would be nice to find out that i need to but TOH for bluetooth for example as there is no info for that ) Why not tell ahead. I was promised for " we would make it different this time, we know all mistakes by Nokia", everyone loved N900 and N9 but still people kept telling that a lot of mistakes were made. We were promised for that "unlike" and now it's same "likely" story. You are telling that Nexus is sh**tty, but yu know that a lot of people think different, samsung(LG) devs think that it's awesome. So what? You can't tell android or iOS is sh*tty so if we make phone at least a little bit better it would be good. You can't say something bad, than telling you are good as you are better than X. If you are better than X doesn't mean you are good enough.