Comment 4 for bug 369048

My problem is an exact déjà-vu of the 2007 bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/123102/comments/5 (which itself links back as early as 2005 to Bug #14010) and I'm almost willing to bet, that it still has the very same, still unfixed cause as it did FOUR years ago.

Why does nobody seem to care to fix show-stopper bugs like this, preventing nothing short of the installation itself?
Why does everybody seem to care only about the latest gimmicks and eye-candy being added to the desktop, while the foundation is still partly made out of flaky plywood?
That recalls strong memories of the Win-9x alleged luxury penthouse sitting on top of a flimsy DOS shack (cudos to c't computer magazine's editorial of that time) ;-)

How many decades more does it take, before finally someone takes on this assignment and fixes it for Ubuntu once and for all?