I agree. I read somewhere that there are 2,777 reported bugs within Elite.
On the
issue tracker, there are 3,705 issues right now. 613 are marked as Invalid (and there are probably plenty more rubbish reports too), 133 as Confirmed, 132 as Acknowledged, and lastly, 71 as Fixed.
However, bear in mind that reporting issues on the tracker is somewhat unpleasant, and many times people simply don't do it. Easier to just collate them on the forums too, as we've seen with this update. For example, I did a
list of Codex bugs that I've come across, but there ought to be plenty more - and to be honest, I'd rather not make a report for each and every one of them. "Just" the most important ones.
Oh, and those are all present since last December. Fingers crossed that
maybe the December update will fix some exploration bugs.
The biggest problem I see was that Elite had already acquired a reputation for being full of bugs, and rather than improving on this perception, the latest update managed to worsen it quite a lot. Especially bad when this came with the decision to shove "
BUY ARX" almost everywhere. I don't think any of this inspired confidence in anyone, especially not new players, who were the focus of this year so far.