While I’m sitting thinking about this eating lunch I realised there’s another aspect to it.
“You” (some person calling it a “bug”) want to call it a “bug” because you think that will motivate it to get fixed more quickly. Along the lines of “hey there’s this longstanding bug, you need to fix it!!”
Personally, I’m motivated the opposite way. We’ve managed without this so-called bug for so long, what is the motivation to fix it now? What has changed?
A more motivating thing is a feature that someone will use. Here’s a great example:
This person popped in and said “if only we had this feature, we could use the server more in this concrete way…”.
That’s motivating. That feature will be released in a day or two…
I can’t argue with that 
Is there a “NZ rules players club” who all will play more if we get this in?