He didn't say they did a lousy job. He just asked if beta testers did a bad job OR was the game released with knowledge of some of the, by the testers reported, problems.
I think, if they do that, there won't be many people buying version 1.2, cause 1.1 would solve many bugs, but didn't fix them all and brought new bugs too.
Imo irl the missile uses data-link for a certain phase of the flightpath, when it closes in it uses its own radar only or the reflected radar beam. So in your picture1 I think it is still datalinked and in picture2 it's out of datalink phase and uses its own radar/radar reflections and is mislead by chaff.