All I got from this is people need to get over being naked / seen naked.

In Japan it's common to get naked with strangers people of the same sex at a hot spring. IIUC in Finland it's common to get naked with strangers of all sexes at a sauna.

In the past, in the USA it was common to take communal same-sex showers in PE class in junior high school and high school.

But sometime in the past 40 years, that seems to have changed in the USA. I've met lots of 20 somethings and 30 somethings that can't handle a sauna or hot spring because they claim they've never been naked with anyone else. WTF!

Because not disclosing an actual bug that could affect users would somehow be good?

A quick search of the ffmpeg commit history shows google has made plenty of contributions to ffmpeg. They may or may not provide a patch for this CVE but reporting it is the first step so people can then decide what action to take (like don't compile that codec in for example)

Nice theory but in my experience 98% of profiles are generic and say almost nothing.

It is also clearly why Apple wants to control all e-commerce and is fighting tooth and nail to keep controt