Well put!
Agreed. Selling broken software to people (by broken, I mean well-documented, outstanding issues) … then to advertise and sell ‘updates’ before the issues are resolved. Where is the logic? 
Getting down to brass tacks: THEY can do whatever THEY want with their software. You don’t need to buy it. They have the right to release whatever app they want. Even call the bugs features…
We’re in this thread though, why? Because we care about this app. Why? Probably because we rely on it to express musical ideas.
Therefore, SB’s decision to operate like this, out of their negligence and/or calculated marketing, stymies it’s progress. The issues pile up and we’re left wondering why we can’t be liberated from these issues, when all we want for our $ is something that functions in a sensible working matter.
These are shady business practices, at best. It’s not just SB; many other DAWs seem to take this approach.