That only works if the "please verify" bot isn't just prodding for noise and then autoclosing anyway, which is exactly what the author keep running into, over and over, even when the report already has enough detail to reproduce it. Worse, they ask again after a video.

If you want signal, add a flag or make verification mean something in triage, not just another loop. As set up now, you're rewarded more for patience than for actually fixing teh issue at all.

> you can say put "please verify whether it is still present" via bot before doing so. Which apple did

No, that's not what Apple did. They said, "Please verify this issue with macOS 26.4 beta 4", a very specific version, implying that they actually fixed the bug in that specific beta version (spoiler: they didn't). And I would have to go out of my way to install that specific beta just to "verify" the bug. Moreover, they gave me only 2 weeks to verify before closing the bug that they hadn't responded to at all in 3 years.

They suddenly created artificial urgency for no apparent reason.