You are the one claiming to work for a software development company. That doesn’t mean you know how to program. A bug like this could affect other things from the store and affect more players. So yes, it would need to be fixed.
Being punctilious about wording doesn’t make you look smart. Proportionately a small number of players are having the issue. Based on the information given by the Blues, and the fact that the forums haven’t been flooded with threads about it.