Well, for me D7 means both business and case study for greater things. As long as they don't release the final edition i pretty much hang up in the air on developing new plugins and mods as well as putting my own site on air again. What can we do, besides reasonably whinning bout this? work on the betas...that's the only way we'll be almost sure that when the final version get's released i'll be ready and pretty much running steadily.
Keep in mind that these comforting words actually come from someone see more that has already put time effort and a nice pile of money on this whole project...