I don't know if I'd go out of my way to blame their horrible panel on upsell attempts, or confusion. I think they honestly hide most advanced features away because they don't want to invite an extra 50,000 phonecalls a day.
The less trouble a user can cause, the better -- particularly at that scale. For more advanced users it merely invites frustration, however.
You may be right... I'm not willing to login to godaddy right now (have to dig up credentials), but their marketing materials on the unloggedin site are much improved over how I remember (six or eight months ago?). The services are differentiated better and the value-adds for each service are actually related to that service (rather than the aggressive cross-pollination of service offerings).
The less trouble a user can cause, the better -- particularly at that scale. For more advanced users it merely invites frustration, however.