I can certainly see the profit motive but it isn't a bad idea honestly.
My main gripes with console game is basing the controls off of gamepad then mapping keyboard mouse in.... as long as the game stays keyboard mouse based to begin with it's all good to me.

I can see some slight delay for putting out big content patches but not much. Bug fixing for console should be a non issue since the console thing is a "fixed" hardware base and probably handled by outsourced devs anyway.

So I don't see console side really effecting the game development in the long run by much. I still have faith they are looking at the big picture and will finish the game as intended.