With the truck being their bread and butter vehicle I cant imagine them releasing them until they meet their "ready to ship" standard (whatever that is) no matter who it was going to. A recall of any kind will be met with more criticism than any recall GM or Toyota has ever met with. The critics of the new aluminum body, and of Ford in general, are just waiting in the bushes ready to scream like little school girls at the first sign of anything short of perfect.
I was at MAP when they launched the CMax and I can say those first vehicles that rolled out to the public had been gone thru with a fine tooth comb several times. If they found something wrong on one car then all of them were checked. I think I would have gladly taken one of those over the 2000th one that went down the line.
Despite all that, I get the whole concept behind their train of thought. It's just as someone who stopped leasing trucks 7 years ago due to gas mileage and is extending his lease a month at a time, waiting on the new truck, its especially irritating to be told their finally going to hit the lots early October but you cant get one like you want till late January or February.