The bug was introduced during the release sprint, so it has not been there that long. The scaffold, being a template, did not benefit from automated testing and the bug does not affect any of the existing production installs that we know about. We developers do not use the scaffold that much and depend on the community to find and report these things, which you did (and thanks for that). Also, it's an alpha release, which means that those kinds of things are actually expected. Overall, I think things worked out the way they are supposed to work.
It's true, but also equally obvious, that there are not many installs so far. There's also been zero promotion, which will continue to be the case until we have at least a beta.
Thanks again for helping us detect bugs and being part of the early adopters,
Carlos de la Guardia