I think their current state makes good quality control rather difficult, and they're doing well. I'd rather they messed up the feature announcement than pushed unstable features out. Now we have the added bonus of knowing that both these features are coming.

I get the feeling that the attention to the sd card under android might be effort to let Sailfish run on smaller internal storage configurations. It's rumoured that the Intex phone may have only 8GB onboard, in which case it's crucial to allow Android data to use the SD.