I'm right there with ya regarding the speed of NV upgrades lately. It would be interesting to hear from the executive team their strategy and reasoning.
While this may be how you feel about the Note3, it is quite a ways off from how other people feel. Most people don't have the luxury of upgrading every year, nor do most people travel over seas and have a need for a world phone.
If every phone in 2014 is going to be tri-band it is a pretty big oversight to launch a flagship model without tri-band 3 months before that date. Especially when you're planning to launch another model with tri-band and other companies already said they would do it.