> If anyone complains about my verbosity or sentence structure — as they usually do, which is the reason I originally let the AI write the prose, among other reasons obsoleted by templating — they can go fuck themselves.

You can write for an audience or you can write for yourself. Which is fine either way but you shouldn't pass the blame for bad results on to your audience.

> and recieving almost no substantive input, discussion, or response on the actual content of the article

Well did you write it for that purpose?

> "Just wait, more bugs will surface" -- v3.4.3 has been out long enough

Wait for _more releases_. As your own data shows the bug rate is not consistent between releases. So this is probably not a worthwhile metric. Perhaps systems touched, new features included, or attempted fixes would be a better way to contextualize releases and the goals of the author.