alt Hacker NewsThat makes sense. But when you take 3-5 years to respond to my bug report, I'm going to take at least 3 months to respond to your response. And I'm probably not filing more bugs, because chances are I won't be at my current employer by the time you reply.
When you consitently burn bug reporters, sooner or later there's nobody to file bugs.
Because that's probably how long it took for someone to prioritize it.
Even if it's not fixed by the dupe ticket, the volume of bug reports makes it almost certain another ticket for the same issue will come up. And if it doesn't then it probably wasn't that relevant to anyone.