Hi Theodore Lewis,
The main problem is that you have no way to go back to iOS6... Apple stopped to sign the older iOS version (older than iOS7) on their server.
This mean that you can not downgrade to an older version of iOS .. of course they decide it almost 3 weeks after releasing the iOS7.
I think they have opted to stop signing the older version to be sure that the iphone and ipad users that upgraded to iOS7 and hated it was unable to downgrade to iOS6 has they saw thousands of users downgrading to iOS6 during the first week.
This was very bad for Apple, this wasnt a victory, this was the proof that the iOS7 was inferior in term of battery life, multitasking, speed and design compare to iOS6.
So they decide to stop signing the older version to keep trapped in iOS7 all the new innocent upgraders and to increase their statistics concercing the iOS switcher.. its just about number... but i am sure if today Apple decide to re-sign the older version we will see more than 50% of iOS users return to iOS6, specially those with iphone 4!! even those with iphone 4s.. Even the other users from iphone 5 and iphone 5s, ipads, mini ipad... need to go back to iOS6 due to the multitasking problem (app switcher) that turn almost all the ipad unusable.
So imagine the success of iOS7 if they remove the downgrade restriction.. i think 50% is still a very very low number of users that will go back to ios6.. sincerly i am sure that we are around 80 %to 85% that want and some that need to downgrade to ios6.
Now with this little infos you understand that this kind of restriction it is not a simple decision from Apple but is to cover all the mistakes in iOS7.
Apple will never recognize it.. do think about it.. iOS7.1 that is supposed to fix some problems is supposed to be released for the end of March 2014 imagine almost 7 months with these OS full of bugs.
But better they still dont talk about the Multitasking fix (app switching fix) so maybe in 7.1 we still keep this problem .. even the battery problem is not fixed in 7.1.... the only bug fix in iOS7.1 is the safari tab reload problem.
I wish you all the best...
Greets