I would rather have the official HF account replying. They are here, reading us. So they could do us the courtesy of answering, not by proxy.
The major problem with this thread at the moment is that it is very hard to follow. If you don't have at least a few users on ignore, it's even hard to keep up reading, so how do you expect any official from HF, who will probably be busy with other things as well, to keep up and give qualified answers? And by qualified, I mean something substantial, that's probably going to have to be approved by HF's executives, as it will always be held against them when they don't meet expectations.
That said, I'd also like to see some real answers from HF, so please, HF staff, make up your minds as to how you want to treat your loyal early customers and come up with
something that will satisfy their legitimate requests.