3G iphone - version 2.0 - any reason at all to upgrade to 2.0.1?

I honestly know nothing about these updates. All I know is my phone is the same software as when I picked it up at AT&T about 10 days ago. I checked and its on version 2.0
Is there any reason at all for me to risk the 2.0.1 upgrade and what it this upgrade supposed to be for? From what I read on here, its destroying about 50% of the phones out there...

The 250 MB update completely replaces the entire software image running the phone. All iPhone3G updates are likely to be 250 MB (or more, depending on how many cool new things are added). All 1st generation updates were around 170 MB, regardless of the nature of the upgrade. Apple does not release patches or incremental updates for the iPhone.
The process goes kinda like this...
Download the new image (the 250 MB download)
Backup the phone (all the user specific stuff, music, videos, apps, settings, logs)
Wipe the phone (preparing the iPhone for upgrade)
Install the new image
Boot the phone on the new image
Replace all the user specific stuff from the backup above.
Reboot the phone again.
It can easily take several hours to do this, depending upon how fast your Internet connection is and how much stuff is on your phone. I have a 15 Mbps internet connection at home so it only took about 5 minutes for me to get the download. But It took over 45 minutes just to do the backup on my phone, then probably another hour or so, before I had my phone back on 2.0.1. Just to find out the update did not fix my bluetooth issue. (release notes would have been nice) Oh well... The phone seems to work somewhat better in general, but I was not really having any problems other than the no bluetooth for voicemail with Plantronics problem. (my wife's Jawbone works fine, btw)
That is why I say "get used to it." Every update will involve the same process... at least.

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