I think this is a case of the official internal language badly interpreted.
“As designed” doesn’t mean it is meant to be wrongly designed.
It does mean that the developer has created the feature as planned/designed, regardless if it’s correclty or wrongly designed. I’m not going to discuss the severeness of the issue, I need to look into this much deeper, but if your bugreport is considered to be “exotic” (very unlikely to happen in “normal” working conditions - or better “designed to break the feature”) then indeed there is very little chance that they look into it.
But again, I haven’t looked into this.
And for the record, I always start a project with “create initial values”. There is so much that can go wrong if you don’t start your mix that way.
Fredo