Now *you're* making assumptions. How do you know it's "nowhere near the final code"?
Same argument, different year. The PES 2018 beta... Almost identical to final code. The demos... Same. But this year? Lo and behold, a "long time lurker, brand new member" joins to say THIS TIME... It'll be different.
Well, maybe it will! We ALL hope it will.
But history tells us the odds are against it.
If you don't like the scepticism, don't read it, right? Plenty of places glossing over the facts out there (i.e. the poor, basic gameplay of the beta - referred to by their own PR guys as a DEMO in their chats to Eurogamer and IGN).