> As an eternal reminder of the need to do better?

Eternity is a very, very long time. Longer even than 80 years (arguably the total age of the whole "programmable electronic computing and data storage machines" industry), you know?

So I don't think that having an open issue in a bug tracker forever is even possible; not that it would even serve as a remainder — I assure you, most long-existing firms have "ignore open issues older than X years" filter enabled by default in their Jiras or whatever people use nowadays, those are only ever looked at once year by the upper management when they're out of ideas.