are you willing to undertake providing support for all the problems in current 7.6 on ALL platforms right now?
Are you willing to test the builds on all platforms, and be the person to help everyone who's hitting issues?
doing an HP release now will push back the release timeline of an HP version with 7.8 that has full first class support for 10.9 clang quirks + the win64 fixes that are landing in head this past week, along with a whole slew of other ecosystem amazing improvements.
I suspect the next HP will be using 7.8.2, because certain final steps of the windows fixes are slated for that release, though maybe things'll move up and get fixed in 7.8.1. I could be wrong mind you.
I'm *quite super duper happy* that the next HP will be 7.8.