As long as they're actively working on it, and it'll be out soon, that'll be great. The weird secrecy and the slow pace of development are a little worrisome, but I'd rather they not cut corners on QA testing and end up with a firmware that cuts wifi performance or any such thing. I don't at all understand the business reasons for not releasing beta versions to those of us who are interested, without all the security concern and NDA nonsense. Is there really something so secret and important in development that must be kept under wraps? As has been noted earlier in the thread, other companies put out public betas without all the fuss.
But I'm excited about the websocket interface and think it'd finally get me the functionality for which I was hoping when I bought the device. If Securifi really extends the websocket interface to allow remote scripts to get the status and toggle/set connected sensors, that'd suddenly make the Almond+ a useful automation hub controllable via node-red or openhab or other systems -- without us having to depend on Securifi's graphic interface or development process. Once they have this system in place I'll stop worrying too much. I'd then be getting decent wifi performance, VPN, and z-wave and zigbee interfaces that I can control with software of my choice.