The original poster cannot be a software developer of any kind. First of all, there is no way to find all the bugs in testing short of extending testing into years rather than months. For those few known bugs, they were minor enough that they were far outweighed by the bugs and problems fixed by I3. I had stopped playing my tanker until I3 came out. So, why it may inconvenience some people minorly that it has some minor bugs, others of us feel it was a good decision to rescue toons we had thrown in the "on hold" bin waiting for I3.
The one exception I would have to agree with a later poster on is that the free respec should have been in place. Some of the changes to certain classes were radical enough that an immediate respec is an absolute necessity.