Just to correct what you have said, as far as I'm away ESET have always kept to what Aryeh said:
Therefore it isn't a case of "going to start providing the software by the time it goes retail" as they have always followed this trend and it hasn't put ESET's large customer base off yet?
Appreciated it may be inconvinient for some people but surely ESET want this to be perfect and, I'm assuming, it takes quite a while to make a programme so great as ESET's, fully compatible with very few, if any, glitches with a new release.
Maybe patience is a virtue.....