Well, actually, that scenario is exactly what happened.
They pushed out 3.01 automatically and some people had problems with it (at least I did) and they had to put out a 3.02 to fix the problems (at least it did for me).
See:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=21
For the first report of the problem with 3.01 being fixed (and I'm in there somewhere later)