Well, I agree they could have blunted that attack vector towards themselves somewhat with some quicker effort.
And I would agree it would be nice to know what’s keeping them busy right now preventing them from doing so.
But it’s not that they can’t support that, they just didn’t yet …
We are working towards making available:
a flashable image for download and manual flash
… which was an important missing piece as far as I understood and would have helped in time, but community heroics yielded quicker results now …