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> On a sufficiently complex product it is impossible to fix all known bugs

You really think so?

Surely it's just a matter of picking a sufficiently high bar for "will fix" and then focusing some time on it.

We had a P0 bug which caused unplanned device reboots in the field with unclear cause. It is still open, 3 years since first detection. And it looks like it will be open until device end of life. We have a mitigation for which affects performance, and that's about it. It was tracked down to deep inside Linux kernel and some firmware interactions and no amount of work produced a fix for it. And that was a mission critical bug, which was pushed by the biggest and super important customer (and others too).

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