Case in point: D5 render labels their new path tracer as “Alpha”. It actually works pretty good. And they haven’t even labelled it as “Beta”… but rather “Alpha”.
Many features in Rhino are completely and totally broken. But some of the R8 WIP features that worked well didn’t make it into the release. ‘Flair’ for example: It worked pretty good. But it was deemed “not ready”? Yet so much stuff that appears to have zero testing found its way in.
If everything that was broken (or iffy) was labelled “Alpha” then ordinary users could steer clear of it without wasting their time. More ambitious users could test it out and help work out the kinks. Maybe that would get more people into it instead of just relying in WIP for beta testing.