I think in reality it's more nuanced than that: the number of people who use computers who can fix a kernel bug is relatively small, and the process of getting a bug accepted, patched, and shipped is not trivial. I would not want to bet on a bug which Linus disagrees with getting patched faster than, say, a report on some company's enterprise support agreement.

(disclaimer: I've been running Linux and other open-source OSes for over two decades. I like OSS but it's not perfect and staffing for projects is an under-solved problems.)