Sandisk Sansa Clip Sport fw. older than 1.17

Firmware updates are supposed to be win-win for both Sandisk and consumers, but apparently, it became a huge tradeoff. I deeply regret installing FW v. 1.17 because of the many introduced limitations (2k object limit, back key misbehavior, etc). Can we just have the option of reverting to the original firmware (1.09)? I think SanDisk owes the consumers at least that.