That's what I feel. Not only do they have an impossible deadline to hit right now, but the deadline they did hit was probably impossible as well.

They may have spent most of the summer architecting this thing and figuring out things like "seeds". When it came down to putting code on screen, as it were, they had minimal time to do so. All of these security issues feel like the release was rushed and that they might have been better off releasing it silently, without a way to deploy public nodes, and having a blog post explaining the situation.