I voted for the earlier release as well. I will echo what many of the others have said, in that the constructive feedback you get from the community as a whole should help stamp out the bugs in the build and hopefully expidite development of the mod.

It's no secret everyone has eagerly anticipated 0.8, including myself. We are all excited over the new features and I think this will outweigh the negatives of the beta.

Thanks again for all your work!