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I feel like my experience with big cos is that the "that's another team" might go like this:

Parental controls is essentially maintenance mode and has 1 dev nominally responsible for it, maybe their workload is divided between that and a bunch of other stuff that they deem their "real" work. The way the component works means that bugs typically get assigned elsewhere in the system very far away from parental controls; you, the owner of Contacts, land a bug like "Your feature XXX has the following failure in parental controls mode." The team responsible is like ... "Why do I care about this? Why should I take a code change for this? Isn't that your problem?" Whoever is responsible for parental controls might not care, but if they do, they don't have political leverage over the owner of the Contacts app or whatever. Therefore, won't fix.



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