The hell with GM process. There should be a way to push out simple changes like this, as soon as possible, for cases like this which is very important.
Which is why you need a process for shipping out emergency fixes. Microsoft can do it in 24 hours, and on the desktop, the impact of a broken build for Microsoft is staggeringly large when compared to Apple.
The GM process is there precisely to stop bugs like this malingbit into production. Who knows how many potential bugs it has stopped. You can't know.
To play the devil a bit, their process still needs some work, there isn't a good reason why they couldnt have released this patch in its own approval process simultaneously with a higher priority for staff to choose it over facetime.
