+1, Thank you!
I'll add that I don't buy the conspiracy theories of wanting to sell more of the RAZR, not now anyway. Maybe back on 11/10 when both the RAZR and ReZound dropped. Maybe they had already decided to hold back the Nexus for a little bit to give breathing room. That was a logical conclusion.
But there was a huge effort, taking lots of manpower and money, to get the devices in stores in the beginning of last week, for sale on the 9th. All of the leaked shipping documents that I saw mentioned how the phone wasn't being shipped in the standard way, that it was being shipped as quickly as possible to all locations, and that there were special methods of stocking and inventory that all stores needed to follow. Verizon just wasted a ton of money on shipping and what was likely extra staffing across the board to achieve this. I don't believe they would have knowingly wasted there own money if they weren't serious about the 9th.
This also indicates to me that there aren't any legal issues holding things up. They wouldn't have targeted the 9th internally unless all was settled legally. Not to mention Google/Verizon wouldn't have signed the exclusivity contract and the contract to carry the phone before all legal issues were solved well ahead of time. Companies just don't sign things like that unless there are agreements in place ahead of time. Not to mention the whole Google Wallet thing is a ludicrous theory to begin with.
LTE issues. Updates were supposed to go out 2 hours after activation. No one that mentioned to snag a device early got an OTA. OTA not ready yet, however internal testers got the update the morning of the 9th. Phone delayed due to software issues still being worked out. Sounds completely plausible to me, and in fact sounds like the only plausible explanation to me.