I tried to report issues with a broken VP9 decoder causing system instability in MediaToolBox on my Mac Mini but I need to pay 100$ to even get a chance for an Apple tech to see this issue in their developer forums (not that they engage much with their developer community at all).

Apple is shipping broken software left and right ever since the ARM transition and it's become noticeable.

I was mostly replying to the implication that apple would be using anything other than primate apes for QA.

What other species/order than primate apes do you think would be suitable for apple QA?

You are as likely to have an Apple engineer create a bug report for you on Apple's forums as you are here.

http://feedbackassistant.apple.com is where you file such requests. Just keep in mind that the wall they have between public and internal systems means you may not get updates unless you periodically ask for them.

a little bit of irony, considering this submission's website:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/FeedbackAssistantBoycott/

"if you yourself is not a primate ape"?

I was unsure of choosing "is"/"are" (is this not the third person singular present tense correct usage?), but besides that I felt like it was a coherent enough expression.

The "yourself" might feel awkward but is required to ensure that I am talking about the specific poster instead of something like "if you are not a X" in which case it would read like a general you.

If you understood what I was expressing and have a better and more succinct way to express it let me know.

Yeah, I would be surprised if they managed to have QA from species other than the species from Hominoidea family.

I consider myself above average intellectual level with more than enough capacity to spot and fix those bugs or at least report findings to people who should, which probably puts me hopefully on a better level than a primate ape.

But based on your comment, unfortunatelly I can't say the same for you.

You are a primate ape. Literally. I'm not sure what is so hard about this, the parent poster referred to a set (primate ape) that includes both humans and many other apes. If they are not part of that set then it would surprise me.