By “fan boys” do you mean people who would use a Mac even if it was 10 years behind everyone else and was the only platform to suffer viruses that share your data with the world and malware that literally steals money from your bank account? Because that sounds like Windows users to me. You have to be a fan boy to be using Windows in 2009 after 10 years of massive technical failures at Microsoft.

Any data loss bug is significant, but the Mac’s Time Machine feature makes it very easy to restore your home folder within minutes. My Mac’s boot disk crashed a few months ago and I didn’t lose any data. Time Machine restored the whole system automatically once a new disk was put in. So this bug really does not upset me, it just makes me happy that Apple spent years developing and deploying Time Machine. The Mac OS is resilient enough that it can fix the after effects of this bug all by itself.

And all a user has to do to activate Time Machine is plug a backup disk into their Mac. That is all. So there is no excuse for not having an hourly backup of your Mac. That has been a feature of Mac OS for some years now.