You have to cheap out on something if you want to sell a board with an X570 chipset around 220$ don't you?
I always use an adblocker, and yes, it helps, but in general if something/someone was on the internet it stays on the internet and you can't do anything about it. No, I don't wear a tinfoil hat
Memory overclocking is mostly limited by the IMC with the Ryzen 2xxx series, these chips can't handle high DDR4 speeds. Anything above 3200 MHz is a gift, some of them could do 3400+ and I even seen a golden one stable @3800Mhz. At these speeds the motherboard isn't even sweating. One thing what I noticed with this motherboard is that XMP profiles are not well implemented. For example, I have a Samsung B-die kit, rated 3600 MHz@16-18-18-36-68 XMP, but when I load this profile and manually lower the frequency to 3200 it can boot, but its not stable at all. Although it runs fine when I tune it manually to 14-14-14-28-42 with tight subtimings. On the other hand, some of the "Memory Try It!" profiles are working fine, but you have to "Try it".
Funny you mentioned slow firmware updates, when almost all cases MSI was the first manufacturer rolling out new BIOSes. Btw these firmwares not even depend on the manufacturers, but on AMD. AGESA is still a work in progress as I see, although Ryzen 2xxx and 3xxx series got their final version of it months ago, but 5xxx series has still got issues to be ironed out.

If the beta BIOS you are refering to is the v1.61 it won't change anything for the review you made. You have to use a Ryzen 5xxx to notice that you can do 1900 MHz+ FCLK without WHEA errors again. Also L3 cache performance is back at the levels it should be, and USB device compatibility is seems to be fixed too.