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It's a difficult situation. The launch of 2.0 was anything but smooth and i bet there is much gnashing of teeth over it. When everything is sorted out, the bugs will be taken care of, Kobo may make some adjustments based on feedback here and elsewhere, and people will decide whether they can live with the new clock or whatever feature that remains that they don't care for.
In what might be categorized as an aside, it seems to me that Kobo had three possible choices. This version has a different database structure and operates with a different "backend". Kobo could have released a new device that has those things going on (and probably some minor hardware change) or they could have pushed everyone to the version that has those changes using the same hardware/device. The 3rd choice, I suppose, would be that they could ask if a person wants the update or to skip it, but they would have to answer that question every time they did a sync or used the desktop. Only Kobo staff could say why they ruled it out (though I suppose from a support perspective having everyone on the same version makes things much easier).
People who want to avoid the update can do it, but they can't then use the WiFi or desktop.
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