Sure hope you are hoping for honesty and not more disappointment.
(having just dropped a brand new n900 in the swamp I have my hands full
of brackish disappointment right this moment anyway)

Anyways, this issue of discouraging further MAEMO development
certainly looks to be serrriously premature given that Meego appears
to be at an _absolute_minimum_ a year from being where maemo is now.

The question I would hope to see is whether or not MAEMO
fremantle(+?) could be installed on the n9.
This would give us who are learning MAEMO a kickstart
into the n9 hardware learning curve and would allow some
parallel development during the long period of debugggging Meego
(simultaneously, mind you) an infantile operating system
on a brand new and inevitably driver-buggy hardware platform.
Fighting wars on two fronts is usually a recipe for disaster.
At least with a known OS basis we know what to expect when we
encounter difficulties with the hardware.
Dual booting or even a vm environment would go a long way to
helping get things going.

Anyhoo, if this question has been explored would appreciate
links to such consideration.

Thanx