I have been thinking about this for  few days now, but Kyle puts it well in words at http://wphacks.com/still-no-wordpress-271/.

Kudos to the team who put in the hard work to ensure this great release.

Update – As on 3rd Feb, 2.7.1 beta was released with some minor bug fixes and enhancements. But still, having no minor update for almost 50 days after the major version upgrade, is probably a first for WordPress. Cheers folks!