Understood that a major release might be buggy but I believe the real reason for high number of bugs is the long list of functionality you guys trying to cram it in and it leaves little time and resources for you test everything. Between the two releases I counted some 18 bugs related to checkout, shipping and payment..all three a shopping cart should do flawlessly that is the core purpose of the shopping cart! But you guys spend way too much time on bells and whistles and end up spending less effort on core shopping cart functionality. My 2 cents.
Totally agree with the feature / quality balance comments.
The system has huge number of features, the quality is bad.
I think it would be better for everyone if we had a simpler system with better quality.
Let 3rd party developers or addon developers do the case specific features.