Sounds funny given that the Gothic 3 Alpha was almost unplayable one month before release but the Gold Master played by one magazine is supposed to be almost bugfree.
Now you say "MTW2 is a bit rough around the edges" and think it needs a lot of work to be done. Of course it depends on the programmers and cause of bugs, but I think some bugs or whatever you mean with being rough(I have no idea about bugs in the game from the information I got) may be easier to solve than most people think.
I voted they should take their time anyway since I want a new CPU before getting M2TW so they can just as well optimise until November next year or so.