EDIT: actually deep look inside the .33 firmware shows as well other interesting things, like MIL-1553 or Flex options, not only new 10bit DSO SDS2000XPlus, hmm
Because they are using the same source code as in the SDS5000X... Nothing more.
that's right, but on the other hand what the firmware is doing depends on model name, i tried already SDS2000X-E binary on SDS1000X-E and was of course nothing special, it worked exactly as the SDS1000X-E firmware did. So vice versa it could be possible to lie about hardware version to get 2000 series features running on 1000 series.
Personally I would love the option to buy the canfd decoder
the firmware does read and evaluate at least options_canfd_cfg.bin files, once i placed it (copy of my unused wifi_cfg.bin), it immediately created options_canfd_times.txt, even if this is not available feature on 1000X-E, so the hope remains (however, there are some changes to licensing check, some extra _md5_ here and there ...)