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The post you are responding to is making the point that even though we have QA, dedicated jobs or even departments for these things … We, as a profession, still fail in releasing bug-free software. And that’s 100% correct.

Is that really something you are challenging? Which pieces of popular software you can think of are bug-free? And are you thinking of more than a handful?

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They said "So when a journalist notices a bug in their article and has to "retract a release", how is that not what we do every single day?"

And they themselves were responding to someone criticizing media for using "editorial standards" as an excuse when they "retract a release".

And I explained how we are the same and supposedly strive to not release bad content/software, we just don't get to magically absolve fault with an excuse that "it doesn't meet our QA standards" as an analogy to "editorial standards".

Anywho, the whole thing breaks down when we have to beat it with a stick. It's a discussion, assume a charitable interpretation.

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