As a developer I can comment on nr 2. The last month was more chaotic than before the release because of the new bugs that were discovered from users with weird setups
Everybody gets together, there are snacks and drinks and music, and then at the stroke of midnight all the software turns to hardware and by 12:03 everyone releases simultaneously
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