The problem for me is that I bought the device partly based on my expectations on Maemo 5 ( I was under the impression that it was a lot more mature than it actually is ), and the hardware. The hardware is a perfect fit for me, I want resistive & wasd, sadly I feel the N900 will be the last to have this setup as Nokia is seemingly jumping on the capacitive bandwagon ( and I wouldn't be surprised if they drop physical keyboard in the future as well, seeing as every phone manufacturer atm seems to have a inferiority complex with the iPhone ).

I see root access as a great bonus, not as an excuse to provide a poor official OS ( a lot of people seem to be of the opinion that this doesn't matter since we technicaly can install whatever we want, allthough I'm of the opinion that trouble and poor support lies down that route ).

Of course it's a godsent from Nokias pov. They don't need to provide expensive customer support, that seems to be expected to be done by the community for free ( I do think the community is doing a great job on this front even though I do think Nokia should have representetives and official support as well, which judging by posts on the forum seems poor at best ). If one follows Ari Jaaksi's blog it also becomes pretty obvious, I think, what Nokias strategy is for the N900. They want the community to port AND support MeeGo for the N900 once it arrives. Which of course once again is rather convinient for Nokia. An army of developers which seemingly doesn't care about having to target & support a wealth of different OSs, and port, maintain as well as support Nokias different OS experiments.

Luckly I'm not that interested in an app store ( which for Maemo 5 at least we now know is pretty much dead before it even started ).