quarantine 'em

But at that point you're building two games in parallel. It's hard writing, and there are only so many hours in the day

In general it's interesting to me when the consumers of a creative work notice issues which the creators were also aware of

I can't speak about every creator but whenever I read a review of something I wrote, there's rarely anything in there I didn't already know

That includes the negative parts. Nothing of mine has been shipped "perfect" in my eyes, and I expect this is true of nearly everybody

It's much less "How bad is this? Can't wait to read the review to find out!" and more "What did they spot; what did I get away with?"

This is true of software as well as artistic works/writing/films/games. We ship with bugs. We know there are bugs. It's a tradeoff

You play a new game; you find obvious, glaring bugs. Walls you can clip through. Balance issues. Do you really think they didn't know?

There are priorities here. Showstopper bugs successfully fixed instead. There's a hard deadline, and patching is preferable to delay