Obviously it's about money, and I hope they make enough to continue making these games. Like I said, the game is great fun, and I'll completely recommend it once some of the worse (crashing) bugs are fixed, which, hopefully, will happen with next week's expected patch. It really is great and addictive.
That being said, I also hope a point is found where the negative reviews cause a significant enough delay in their reaching their target profit that they bother testing things better in the future. I have no numbers to back me, but just from checking out the Amazon.uk user polls/reviews, it looks like CA is going to lose some potential customers at least temporarily. Will that loss be greater than the cost of delaying the game a month? Who knows.
Still, although I appreciate the nature of the beast and that, comparatively to other games, it might seem like a wonderfully playtested product, It is blatantly obvious that all the playable factions were not playtested. That trade port bug was a smoking gun in that regard.
It feels like HTC adding a new plane and never taking it for a spin to see if it can really climb to 3,000 feet. I just can't imagine it, but then again, I've been pretty spoiled by HTC in terms of customer support and reliability...