Apple and other companies offer a free engraving option, because you can not return them afterwards. Still, why would you return it anyway, it is a great machine.
Ditto, mathematically, most of the users are not the early adopters. I'm also not one, and I'm certainly more typical "average" guy: my first iPod was Shuffle(!), the first iPhone the 4 and it's much more convenient than I was able to imagine even if I really, really miss the possibility to use it as a simple "flash disk."
I've bought an iPad 2 for my parents. I expected that USB will work with the "apple camera connection kit" but it doesn't. Still I'm going to order the new iPad. Even if I miss some things that competition has, I consider overall feeling really worth the investment both for the iPhone 4 and the iPad.
I didn't get an iTouch till it's 3rd generation, didn't own a smartphone till iPhone 4, and didn't get a MB till the Unibody design came out.
And now I will own my first iPad in an hour once I get home from work. The delay due to getting the engrave option.
So yeah, count me as one of those that's finally getting an iPad :D