Stern knows its customers don't mind waiting a little for the code updates

They dont have much choice in the matter and Stern seem to release less and less finished code each time.. but hey.. buyers are falling over themselves to get a game first up and will willingly buy  on title alone, before any artwork or even game play is released.. for the life of me, i cannot understand this at all..

So very very true +1

I am a Stern customer and like many other Stern customers I really don't like waiting for code updates that much at all, in fact I am pretty sick of them releasing bare bones code in games, I consider it a bit of a slap in the face actually. It has stopped me from buying nib again because I have NO way of knowing if a game with a theme that I like will turn out the way I want it too.
But as long as people are hyped up enough to buy these things without completed code after viewing a few videos and some pics there is no way Stern will pick their act up, so in reality we as pinball owners/players only have ourselves to blame, if we voted with our wallets and didn't fall for this hyped up form of trickery there would be no problem.