Why was 1P8 released in a seemingly unfinished state?

I share the same opinion as all of you. And one additional comment, the agile development that steven1 mentions lends itself very well to the subscription model, because there are constant releases to justify being subscribed, even though some of the features were present before.

There's still enough features to keep me from looking into other alternatives, but that's not something I would have even considered in the past, before AgileBits had such a profound change in the target of their overall mission.