We are mass-guessing anyhow:
Information is so scarce that they might do it and get away (at least for a while) with it.
Such a behavior could get from the extreme of awarding the few available devices to the contributor/poster/apostle of the month, through 50 shades of “we prioritize X over Y because Y asked for a lot of extras/his device is built of parts sourced in the wrong continent/it is an awful person/oops the mail slipped through we are so sorry” to the other extreme of following exactly the chronological order of order arrival/address confirmation/you-name-it.
No sane person wants to think they are working on the arbitrary extreme, and information on this forum seems to exclude the other strictly chronological extreme. Therefore, they must be working somewhere in between - and I for my self hope they are near to the strictly chronological extreme.
This is, however, only reasoning and inference from what can be read.
If Purism would not want it to happen, I see only two ways out: be radically more transparent and communicative than they have been up to now (yes, we all have seen improvements, but they have still a long road to go; and, yes, it might not be an option because of legal/economical/business/you-name-it reasons, but this can also be a boilerplate excuse), or get a phone into each hand which paid for one. Both of them seem not to be doable now, so people with time on their hands and interest in the matter will keep talking and reasoning and arguing… No information will be added neither from people venting their frustration, neither from supporters defending the company.
This could be the right moment to add another (more than one?) category to the forum regarding shipping infos, frustration vents, company support and whatelsenot, so to keep the other sections clean for relevant information.