@dbannon,
What you're saying is very reasonable and I basically concur.
From what I understand, there has only been one or two "problems" that have prevented the release of 3.2.4 (I could be wrong about that but, that's the impression I got from reading past forum posts.)
If that is really what has happened then, in my mind, it seems reasonable to release v3.2.4 without whatever parts are causing the problems and postponing their solutions/implementations for a later release.
I'll provide an analogy... back in school, a piece of advice every student got was, if you don't know the answer to one of the questions, move on, answer the rest of the questions you know the answer to and then revisit those that didn't get answered in the first pass. Same reasoning for FPC releases...