Shrug... so there's an 8 year old VBA bug? I'm sure there are old Windows/IOS/Android/MacOS/Ubuntu bugs that similarly have not been fixed.

Here's a 6 year old IOS bug that affects my old videos that's still around, despite being reported when it first cropped up: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7226531

Not sure why the article is HN newsworthy.... is the implication that because this is a "developer tooling" bug, it's somehow more important, or more likely to be fixed, than any other bug? IMHO, that's not a valid expectation.