Agreed, but in this case, some/most of these XE boards are AFAIK/IIRC Beta boards, and sold "as is", weren't they ?
That's just not true, please let that myth die.
Only a very small number of "AmigaOne SE" boards were ever sold as "developer boards", and not even for those was the ridiculous notion that any in-development-status was meant to refer to the state, guarantees, quality et c. of the HARDWARE.
You just can't "develop" a motherboard that you've bought. All "AmigaOnes" were sold as fully "certified" (hah!) hardware which end-users were supposed to eventually run AmigaOS4 on.
For more on that, including links and quotes, see e.g.
this post.
