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> After a while, it feels less like "iterative" product development and more like "highest bidder gets the feature" development.

It does work that way. I work for a unicorn security firm that internally has the rule that a bug impacting a business that pays less than 10K a year cannot be fixed. They are to be strung along until they quit on us.

Whether we are actually working on the issue we claim to be working on entirely depends on your ARR. If you are a customer with less than 10K ARR, your bug is not getting any attention from engineering, just endless promises from support.