Home Open Beta... Mistake or good call?

[Uniquely]

I'm not passing any judgements on Home itself. I can't. I haven't been able to get into it yet. Apparently I'm nowhere near the only one with this problem.

This begs the question..... was it a good idea to release Home to the masses before it was ready?

Maybe it would have been better to have kept increasing the size of the beta and continue to work out the bugs before unveiling it.

One the other hand....... Home has been talked about for so long..... many people were beginning to regard it as vapor ware.

Was it worth the risk to release a still buggy feature just to have something to feed the people who were growing weary of the wait? Or will the poor initial experience turn off users who might have been big fans otherwise?