I can both see the value in that approach and, having run across things like this situation before, I can also see an unaddressed question in this post (already

I can both see the value in that approach and, having run across things like this situation before, I can also see an unaddressed question in this post (already brought up by the replies, but worth repeating): how is that scenario not a fundamental failure of management, or some kind of dysfunctional organizational dynamic, to not prevent that kind of thing from happening in the first place? Bug reports aren't exactly sui generis, they don't just mysteriously appear.