[jbearamus]

I thought the whole concept of the OS was open source, meaning anyone can do anything they want to do with it, including putting a "proprietary overlay" on it that puts stock Android to shame.
And the carrier isn't necessarily the problem. I don't recall reading anything anywhere that all devices would be guaranteed to receive every update to Android, look at the G1 and myTouch, I think the last official update they've received was 1.6 and I'm sure there are no plans to officially upgrade them, because the carriers and manufacturers don't have to do anything they don't want or don't feel like doing, when it comes down to it, any Android phone is just another phone that the manufacturers are only going to support for so long and they're not required to support forever
And so what if they want to sell another phone. You can't expect a company to sell you a product and support it with updates forever, they would go out of business. Now as for your "faster processor" on the Legend (Hero2)its only 72Mhz faster so find something else to focus on and besides Sprint and HTC have stated the 2.1 update will be out March/April and to quote myself from another thread, launch dates announced at MWC are not applicable to the United States, globally, the manufacturers do whatever they want, in the US they do what the carriers want. So yes, Sprint is probably going to have a Hero2 but its not going to be until this fall, just like everything else announced at MWC for the last who knows how many years, the oldest thing I remember is when HTC originally announced the Apache/PPC6700 4 years ago, the Touch Pro, Touch Pro2, and Hero have all followed the same model
So stop whining, grow up, and be patient