Not only 6G civic but other Honda breeds are practicing the same thing as well. It's becoming the trend from Honda and most other major car manufacturers. Usually the life span of a car model is based on 5 years while the platform is 10 years and now they manage to split it to minor modification version which best known as facelift model with a life span of 2.5 years. They keep changing and get the bug free from the pre facelift version. Hence I always prefer the facelift version, IMO.