Ask HN: Your experience with Pinax

I have just recently learnt Django and found Pinax to be a great source for creating websites quite rapidly. I was toying with the social project on Pinax 0.9a1 and realized I could make something quite easily by removing the excess apps in it.

I checked the last serious Pinax discussion on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764566) which was almost an year ago and most of the people here were rather apprehensive about using it. I was wondering if things have indeed changed for good in favor of Pinax now that it's closer to its first stable release.