Uh... video games generally come to America several months to a year (or even more!) before Europe gets them. Also, would you like everything to have to be RoHS-compliant? Sure, the environment is awesome, but lead-free solder causes issues and is a pain in the butt to work with. The RRoD was able to be fixed sometimes by heating the 360 a lot because that melted the crappy lead-free solder Microsoft used.
Also, we've had the 2.1 update for weeks. I can't stress this enough. The official 2.1, and you don't even need to be rooted to get it (but it's stupid not to root your Droid). You download RSD Lite on your computer and flash the SBF file to your Droid. It takes maybe 30 minutes to download it and 5 minutes to flash.