I guess I was more surprised by the new baseband than anything. Maybe they figure anyone willing to use 7.1.1 on an N6 obviously isn't looking for carrier approval, so why worry? Actually I was more annoyed by the fact that I had to downgrade SDK in order to sideload the OTA. Adb.exe kept crashing using the latest version of platform-tools (25.0.4). Apparently there's some sort of Windows bug associated with 25.0.4