This is not why your "serious people (and Microsoft)" aren't fixing this stuff.
replyThey don't fix this stuff, because it's a priority-3 ticket sitting in the middle of the queue that has hundreds of similar tickets on it, and none of them are being done, because the team has moved on and is either developing new stuff, or addressing priority-1 bugs that are blocking the other teams that are developing the new stuff (possibly backend stuff, but still stuff that will bring money).
The kind of bug that can be fixed by overwriting instructions with NOPs is trivial. The OP isn't trying to invalidate Microsoft's SDLC & QA. They just wanted a solution.
replyWho says inserting those NOPs didn't break other behaviour that OP isn't using. And then there's also Hyrum's law. This whole thing could be very non-trivial.
replyFixing a bug for everyone is very different from fixing the bug just for yourself