I agree this issue hasn't been prioritized as high as it should. I meant to indicate that with "This bug took too long to fix." but I should have said it took to long to schedule.
I've always appreciated how open he is, I just wish it never came down to having to flag him down on Hacker News to get something properly fixed (although, I appreciate that is still something I can do).
We concluded the same internally recently and hence the focus on bugs and wider community contributions in 12.4. We overly focussed on getting the DAG https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/ and Merge Trains https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/merge_request_pipelines/pipeli... out the door and missed a bad bug, we're sorry.