Yes, saying there’s a big bug increases exposure, but also makes people prepared to patch. So it’s a trade-off.
No, when there’s no info provided regarding what the bug is, then it doesn’t make finding the bug more likely for any independent researcher.
Yes, increased exposure does increase the overall likelihood. Duh.
However, all this was not the case, the point here is: someone broke the embargo, and that messed the disclosure up, and that caused this mess.
Go find another straw man to practice mental gymnastics on. I’m not your guy.
See, I think the issue is that you misread my original comment, because this is an entirely wrong interpretation of it. Obviously I'm not saying that for any one given researcher who's already chosen to focus on PHP, that changes anything.
I suppose all your whining about strawmen and mental gymnastics is just you being unwilling to accept that (a) you misread my comment and (b) your reasoning in your reply was entirely illogical.
You know you can just stop replying if you want right? No need to tell me about it.