As a reservation holder myself I don't really consider "delivering" to employees to be releasing a product. Employees aren't free to discuss flaws or other problems and no doubt get priority for fixes/repairs.

I'm certain they will make deliveries to non-insider customers before the IPO. They're clearly close to that and it would be a really bad look if they didn't.

Yeah, I agree. I'm just a bit disappointed that they said deliveries would start in September and then only delivered a tiny number to employees.