Exactly Jeff, and that's why sometimes I think the over-zealous nature of forums is a detriment to posting anything anyway... I think it's contained in a smaller community where we've all been in this for a long time mostly. We know the ropes, and that things change, and we also know a rumor and a wishlist are things that can easily get misconstrued... And I think that happens with some "intent" at times through certain people.
Your list is a perfect example Jeff, of things that maybe were on lists and nixed, maybe got prototyped and dropped, or for all we know they weren't even discussed or seriously considered, and simply were someone's wishful thinking.
You go to a site like rebelscum's forums though, and you've got a TON of people saying a lot of basically bull**** things about new products. Case-in-point would be AT-TE news from the past week... Cool and all, but immediately I got a number of mails about exclusivity and such to Target... People see a Target DPCI and there was immediate rapid stupidity claiming it as exclusive to that store, then panic sets in with others over exclusivity they "heard", and things.
One person says it, another believes it and says it again, and so goes the growing snowball effect... And that's just simply not the truth or even known at the moment.
Such is the hobby though... It was the same 10 years ago, just different players at the time.