> an understated update that in other years might have been called a “Snow Leopard release.”

No. It wouldn't. Snow Leopard was two years in the making, and then took another few years to actually become the Snow Leopard people remember.

Fixing some transparency and re-drawing a few icons is not a Snow Leopard release.

Like, which features in this 150000-character blog post actually warrant the title of "Snow Leopard release"?