Now that's marketing for you. A free upgrade to MorphOS x.1 to conicide with Hyperion's not free (quite costly, actually) upgrade to Amiga OS x.1.
Well.. MorphOS2.1 was promised pretty soon after 2.0 release, because of some missing EFIKA support and other issues left because of the deadline. I think 2.1 promises might have been made even before AOS4.1 was announced. It was clear that 2.0 needed quick update, it's not because of some conspiracy theory or something. And 2.1 was supposed to be released even more earlier, but some new bug findinds delayed it a bit.