KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

Since it was "not for everyone", why wasn't it labelled as a Beta, Technology Preview, or
similar?  I use KDE as my desktop environment, and tried KDE 4.0 very soon after release via
Live CD, without realising quite how incomplete it was.  As a result, I wrote a number of
comments on the feedback Wiki page saying how much work should have been done before it was
released as plain "4.0" - this episode has not improved my confidence in the KDE project, to
say the least.

It would really help matters if the KDE developers just admitted they made a big mistake on
the labelling of this release - the content was fine but it was a technology preview not a
finished, usable release.