Personally, part of me thinks that Mark would do himself (and BRL) a huge favor by lending a fulltime hand to MiniB3D to make it stable, Fast and feature rich. This would go a long way towards getting most of the "Where's Max3D?" folks off of his back for awhile.
I don't think anything would get the "Where's Max3D?" folks off his back. If he released Max3D today, all it would achieve is to morph the "Where's Max3D?" folks into the "So when's Max3D gonna be fixed?" folks instead. I'm not even sure many of them would actually buy it.