1. Some of those recent bugs were caused by unnecessary vibe-coded changes.

2. Of course bugs should be fixed. I even say so in the comment you replied to. You are attacking a strawman.

3. People will always make feature requests. Some want rsync to be able to make a sandwich. That is not really in-scope for the project though.

I think the GNU coreutils are doing this largely right. New features are almost never added. ls, for example, is pretty much complete, and too foundational to mess around with. If you need fancy new features, use something like eza.