Can I say as an end user, I bought the zero. I had no idea it didnt record, some of the terminology was lost on me. Infact I used another distro (openvix) and it worked OOTB so didnt even know it was a missing feature.
End users dont always read the small print, or understand the significance of whats being written on the box. I think the fact it can be enabled is why its not explicitly stated on the box "This does NOT record", it would put everyone off buying the box. Esp as its something that can be enabled with s/w.
Just putting out the perspective of an average end user