Actually I don't think they were lying to me. I'm sure they will release something in the next 24-48 hours, but the question is what. Might just be another beta with Pokemon/ACNL support, but without Multirom. Also, if you take a closer look at the news, they never fully confirmed that all the features listed in the new years news will be included in 2.0:
Nand based titles compatibility and Multirom will be 2.0, sure. But they've never confirmed the rest. The other features might just be their goal for other updates in 2014.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
They confirmed ROM dumping to be in 2.0 in an email they sent me
But yeah, you could be right about the beta