Smart move is only given in special case of renewing your provider contract and the option of having a subsidzed handset.
The question was explicetly if @ejjoman wants to or can get a new Phone NOW, would it make sense to have a XX instead of another phone.

Some pages back i cited the tweet but made a joke that can be misunderstood as a general advice, only to troll dave. Sorry for misleading.

I conclude it is not decided within Jolla themselfes if they can publish the image or only sell preflashed devices.
Else one of the 3 persons asking officially would have gotten an answer.
Jolla is like "No answer" = undecided but we do not want to kill options.

Dave is right imho, hold your horses until further official notice, unless you can have it really cheap.
Sorry to hear @lantern. But you can propably exchange it or sell and buy single sim without much loss but the effort to do so?