In my experience, things don't get done just because they are hanging about in the backlog. Most auto-closed issues in my small team are of the varieties "the

In my experience, things don't get done just because they are hanging about in the backlog. Most auto-closed issues in my small team are of the varieties "the PM had a nice idea one day" and "long standing annoyance which we would need to re-architect to solve and we'll get to it one day". And I don't even necessarily disagree with the CADT post, but... most users are not, for better or worse, so easily dissuaded.