Very true, and probably inherent in the nature of a forum like this - even more so with a beta, but still, where there's smoke there's at least the risk of fire.
OTOH, if you're running 8.x and don't mind going back to 8.4.1, you do have the option of giving the public beta a test drive. Make sure you archive a backup of your 8.x installation before you do that, though.