Sure, but even if they started tomorrow it would probably be years before it even could be considered experimental outside of the most daring early adaptors.
Having a combability layer is not ideal but it would mean they could have something worker for more users faster and at the same time see which modules/drivers they should focus on.
Only issue I see is that the 8 chars required is very short and easy to brute force. You would hope that people would go for the recommended instead, but doubt it.