[PhantomGremlin]

Okay, what I'm about to say might not be too popular with some people, but I'll say it anyway:

How much did you pay for CentOS? Perhaps if more people were willing to pay for RedHat and/or Samba, some of the more obscure bugs would more readily get fixed.

In the general case, developers need to put food on their dinner table and put a roof over their heads. Good quality "free" software only goes so far, OpenBSD pulls it off because they limit the scope of their efforts.

So, instead of complaining about CentOS, buy some RedHat licenses. The end result might not be any different but you'll at least have paid for the right to complain.