Yeah i'm not exactly excited about certifications either :).
But, lets say you're a niche phone company in a financial pinch. You think your system has potential but it's not getting adopted fast enough and your running out of money.
You could just put up the surrender flag and kill the OS off altogether, which is what a lot of people think BlackBerry is doing.
Or, you could temporarily join the enemy (aka release the google priv) to hopefully get more sales, which allows you to stay in the game for longer and get into good graces with android consumers, while still funding development of bb10 which they have already put millions of investment into.
So I just think scenario 2 is possible and people are maybe panicking too much that bb10 is totally dead now.
Although admittedly, BlackBerry should be communicating that better if that is the plan.. so maybe it isn't too likely, in which case scenario 1 is more likely.