1) Nobody makes you use Metacello. If you don't want, don't use it
2) We know this is complicated and this is why we have discussing a lot since the last months, and this is why Dale will integrate #stableVersion, #bleedingEdge, etc
3) This is why there is a FAQ and a website. To persist the things your brain cannot.

Anyway, for me this is not complicated. It is just one rule: "if you don't define a version, Metacello will take the last one"
Since you read the Metacello tutorial I guess, you know a baseline should not define versions. Thus, if you try to load a baseline, it will have no version defined. Then, all the latest ones will be loaded. Is this that complicated?��

Cheers

Mariano
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