I think the design choice is mine to own but, as with most OSS software, liability rests on the end user. It always sucks to see a bug cause so much grief to other folks.

As for HashiCorp, they're an awesome group of folks. There are few developers I esteem higher than their CTO, Armond Dadger. Wicked smart guy. That all being said, there's a lot of moving parts and sometimes bugs get through. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯