Interesting thread. Until recently I've always "bought" the idea that a car that does very little mileage will likely have done a lot of stop start stuff and the oil will be degraded as much, if not more, than if the vehicle had done the 12,500 maximum.
I am questioning this (purely theoretically as I have a 5 year service plan). There's every possibility that my car will have done less than 2,000 miles or certainly no more than 2,500 when the first service is due. On my last Mk3 the oil was, visually at least, almost spotless after 12 months. Straw coloured if you like. They did the oil change and the oil only looked slightly cleaner if at all. I'll be honest, I wouldn't have been able to tell if it had been changed.
I question whether it needs changing after 2,000 miles. It's synthetic oil - a high tech product. I genuinely struggle to believe that 2,000 miles tootling round at low speeds is equivalent, say, to 12,500 miles at motorway speeds.