It depends on how you want to look at it, Sam. Like I said, unless they want to disappoint 98% of their customers/fans, they won't be shipping out an update without emuNAND. They already introduced it. Now if they take the feature away, people will constantly complain to them (as if they're not getting enough complains already) about putting emuNAND back.
Betas aren't always the final version of something. All those times we've seen Sm4sh at E3, or events, they're all beta demos for people to try. In this case, SonyUSA, the supposed "beta-tester", has his hands on a beta that has the most basic features of gateway: playing pirated games. The beta doesn't always carry on to the full release. So I'm pretty sure we'll have emuNAND on the next version.
Everyone needs to calm down and stop freaking out about emuNAND already. When the update comes out, then we'll know. But for now, just leave it alone until then.