The crux of this is that most readers presumably found out about both the bug and the fix in relatively short proximity, and their response is negative to the combined events, not to the knowledge of just the patch.
A criminal prosecuted for murder and petty theft simultaneously can't really go around complaining that they got 25 years in gaol for stealing an apple, but if everyone had already known about the murder and dealt with that accordingly it'd be pretty harsh.
(not that fixing a bug is exactly a criminal act, but the general principle remains)
A criminal prosecuted for murder and petty theft simultaneously can't really go around complaining that they got 25 years in gaol for stealing an apple, but if everyone had already known about the murder and dealt with that accordingly it'd be pretty harsh.
(not that fixing a bug is exactly a criminal act, but the general principle remains)