I'm holding off ordering until the 3rd, to give it 10 days to get here, just in case there's some sort of silent iPod update.
Copy/paste was in big demand for 2.0, as well, so it could very well have been the #1 bullet point for 2.0. I guess they did have the app store for that, though. I dunno, maybe you're right, but I think they're just stubborn on UI design.