Yes that's right.
Ver. 1 was really meant for some specific applications for our robots where we felt the need to have room for sensor connectivity instead of all I/O expanders and thought that people making robots would find this as a useful integrated solution.
However, with the KoRe the user gets a full Arduino board with integrated XBee at an affordable price which would serve a wider user base.
By the way one other question that we have to the user community is we have made the KoRe breadboardable with underside male header pins. However this only works with large scale bread boards. We are planning to make this as an optional solution where underside male header pins are not actually soldered but the user may solder them if he wants to? Or maybe the user just uses our new BreadConnect (http://myra-robotics.myshopify.com/pages/labs) solution for connectivity to the breadboard.