This is not to support Bell, or to say that they shouldn't fix things, but isn't it true that nobody has been killed yet through this? That's what I was told when I did my conversion. It appears to be quite good without a tail rotor, relatively speaking. It's a fine ship, and you could argue that the AStar should also be grounded after the recent series of control hardovers which definitely have killed people, and make me wary of flying it until they have sorted it properly (not to mention other slightly cheesy things).
You are assuming, of course, that all the mods were done correctly, or even done at all.
Let's not get too hysterical.
Phil