Got it today...DAMN its big??

[pine.tree]

I personally wasn't part of the design process- but I would agree with the point that less layers makes for easier designing. 

All boards going out are technically the "beta", it does all these things that a typical SBC does, but it isn't smaller or as small as others. The current design was (from what I gather) intended to show what the Pine64 could do, to get the Kickstarter going for future (more refined) Pine64's to exist.