> If you have shipped with a bug, that automatically lowers the perceived priority as well.

This is unfortunately still true. I've had some radars de-prioritized with this exact reason and there are few things more infuriating.

It's really a sign of an overwhelmed, dysfunctional organization, but I heard from an ex-CoreOS guy that that's an intentional management choice, "people perform better under pressure"... (although I'm guessing Photos is not in the CoreOS org)