Ok, I'll bite
Being pedantic, how do you know it's not his decision to make? Perhaps he is ultimately responsible for the Go / No Go on this type of things. Obviously devs, qa and management would need to have input, but he may be the one that makes the ultimate call.
Anyway, as said by others, 2.0.0 has been pulled, 1.9.17 is what you'll currently get until issues with 2.0.0 are addressed and a new firmware, perhaps with the same version number, perhaps not, is released, and I'm sure there will be a thread about whatever the resulting outcome is.