Sure, but even if they started tomorrow it would probably be years before it even could be considered experimental outside of the most daring early adaptors.
Having a combability layer is not ideal but it would mean they could have something worker for more users faster and at the same time see which modules/drivers they should focus on.
Yepp, and no one really listens to the others, just trying to remember what you did and make sure no one dumps more work on you.