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Again, thanks to all for the answers.
Those kinds of decisions aren't made by mere employees, Josey. They're made by those in the upper echelon, most likely Marketing.
Just a WAG, but what I think "may" have happened is that one of those higher echelon groups wanted to be able to brag and say, "Looky! We rolled out the October 2018 Update in jig time!
That happened with Windows ME and with Vista, even while the Beta Testers were saying, "It ain't ready yet!"
Then there was that guy who is actually gone, who decided Beta Testers weren't needed for Windows 8. Look how that turned out!