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No surprise here. It was a very similar situation with the 6600. People were clamoring for an update (for the 6600 it was the one that enabled EV-DO) but in the meantime Sprint had the 6700 already in the pipeline and after much weeping and gnashing of teeth, in the end they decided not to pay the outrageous sum of money it would take to aquire, test and release a new rom for an EOL device. Trust me it was cheaper for them to give a new 6700 to the few complainers than pay to release a new rom.
I heard all the talk about an official 3.x update from Sprint and felt bad for the folks who were getting their hopes up. Sprint has zero incentive to do it.
What needs to happen in order to get frequent rom updates is the whole damn architecture needs to change. Rather than delegating everything to the OEMs, MS needs to take more responsibility in-house, and issue fixes like they do with Windows/Office/Microsoft Update on the PC side. So long as they can pretty well isolate the phone radio stuff from the rest then the carriers shouldn't have a problem with it and then that saves them the time and expense of testing every rom update before it can be released.
This is why we should all be thankful for xda-developers and the uber smart folks who help out over there (namely one mamaich, but there are lots of others). Without them we wouldn't have come nearly as far as we have.
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