False analogy unless you bought your girlfriend from her family or a smuggler or whoever. Girlfriends do not come with a warranty, but fortunately phones do. And with phones it is not unreasonable to expect that the seller/manufacturer will provide some decent service such as bug fixes.

Software engineering is a vaguely defined science, but still there are some industry standards and user expectations that should be met. I am glad to hear that you are happy with N900 as it is. However, there are many users that have to live with annoying bugs every day. They may not affect you, but believe me there are many of us who have lost their data just because PR 1.2 is late -- or because the current firmware is immature...

Bugs that have cost me data loss:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9657
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6882

So yes, I am trying to make best possible use of N900 as it is. And yes, I am no longer clicking the update button every day, but I would really like to see PR 1.2 soon. It would make me trust the device again. Not mentioning application updates that are held back because of the autobuilder having been switched to PR 1.2 weeks ago...