Smiley
As usual you're absolutely spot on and we share the same view.
1.0 is about consolidation and making sure documentation/examples/api match and stop shifting too much so that people can teach/write books/etc without having to constantly follow the API around.
this opens the door to a more "experimental branch" where we can play more without the fear of confusing a beginner.
Thanks smiley for the kind words here and on Avr-chat where the hate for arduino is so intense it's ridiculous 
To the rest of the people I can only say this : analogWrite stays... move on to something else