there's a difference between showstopper DOA-type bugs that cause a project to simply not work at all and bugs that prevent the product from working to its full

there's a difference between showstopper DOA-type bugs that cause a project to simply not work at all and bugs that prevent the product from working to its full capacity (intermittent crashes, perf issues, lack of or sub-optimal features/ui). the author is writing about the former but in my experience (both as a maintainer and contributor) people are a lot more motivated to report and work on the latter type rather than spend hours just to get off the ground...and it makes sense.