> perhaps praying that the bug had magically disappeared on its own, with no effort from Apple.

I suspect that this is a common approach. It maybe even works, often enough, to make it standard practice.

For myself, I've stopped submitting bug reports.

It's not the being ignored, that bothers me; it's when they pay attention, they basically insist that I become an unpaid systems engineering QC person, and go through enormous effort to prove the bug exists.