Ah time. That is the essence of "it" isn't it. Not to belabor this discussion but some warnings were valid for a time that has since elapsed.

For a time, until a work around was deduced rolling back from the leak would cause problems.
For a time, some programs didn't work at all.
For a time, the virtual keyboard for most 3rd party themes did not display correctly.

All this was worked out eventually but until that "time", a lot of people were lost. Hell, just weeding through the threads here during that "time" was an incredible waste of "it", even for those who weren't lost.

In the end, what ever time was gained by loading the leaked version early was lost to the time spent trying to work around problems that were eventually solved with the official release.

You are right though, after all was said and done, there was no need for the dire warnings that were posted.
However, there was also no need for all the sniveling that was posted here too.

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So perhaps what we all should agree on is that even if someone FUBAR's their N900 installing or flashing anything, someone in this community will post on this forum how to correct it... eventually.

Until that "time" if a FUBAR was not caused by something produced and distributed by this community (including Nokia RC's or leaks) there should be no dang sniveling.

Now I'm going to get me a snack and a cold beer so please, bring on the screenshots if anyone has this installed.