It sounds to me like you are person who is professional and if you think about it you might have come up with this situation yourself.

I can speak from my own expereince.

I f you have your own clients or work with a firm that has numerous clients you find that some are more prepared to move on than others.

There was time when digital photography was not really ready for prime time but all the clients were excited about this technology and wanted digital no matter what the cost.

Then they found that it was not quite as easy as they thought. Then they found they had to acquire knowledge and skills themselves.

Then it was difficult to explain that we had to use tiffs and not jpegs as the agencies demanded tiff files then it became apparent to some agencies that if they went modern it meant ftp for file transfer and that meant it was not practical to send 20 or 30 or more 100MB tiff files, actually the agencies limited it to 80 MB files. So jpeg became their only option so over night it went to nevr send jpeg to you must send jpeg only we will not accept  any other format.

To them it turned out to be a blessing if the client is not savvy then they will degrade the jpeg file and have to pay for another download.

Ok so now we are set with the agencies jpeg it is now what do you tell your clients we can only send you jpegs when they have just learnt that jpegs is a lousy compression scheme, now they think you don't care you are just making this easier for yourself, even if you explain that there is a work around to resave the file as a tiff and or .psd.

You see what is happening here the user in this case you an me want certain capabilities and we can't wait, the support developers are not as capable as the main the developer, the resources of the developer is limited by what the stock holder expects and what is possible no matter how much resources you put into it.

If you are a professional you should understand in this case we are the public and the public can be difficult and extremely unfair even at the cost of creating more problems for themselves.

I wanted Illustrator to be 64 bit but not one of their plug in developers are 64 bit or is even prepared to be 64 bit. en if the plug in developer was working side by side with the Photoshop team they could not have a plug in that they could safely market until the final version is ready for the stores because of the possibility of conflicts so their software has to be tested. It would do little good to take the chance of marketing a plug in too soon as if it became a major problem rathr than  solid time tested solution that could be the end of the developer.

Hopefully you can add one plug in at a time and make certain they are sill working for you when they become available and be thankful your plugins are developed by people who care about what they do and are not just going to through junk at you.

I for one am thankful Nik software is taking their time to do a good job.

Don't you think a little of this at least sounds correct or am I all wrong?