Pretty much everything you said is wrong

1.1 was never meant to have any additional matchmaking, and the ability to host without messing with router configs is already in the 1.09 beta (and one of the major reasons it is a public beta, since new net code needs to be tested).
The changelog for the patch was insanely long, and some bugs are to be expected - interestingly enough, there's only one real major bug (strikecraft not scuttling), and the rest are fairly minor.
But anyway..