Those two links say that CVEs can be one of two categories: universal vulnerabilities or exposures. But the examples of exposures are not, in any way, "any bug in the kernel". They give specific examples of things which are known to make a system more vulnerable to attack, even if not everyone would agree that they are a problem.

So yes, any CVE is supposed to be a security problem, and it has always been so. Maybe not for your specific system or for your specific security posture, but for someone's.

Extending this to any bugfix is a serious misunderstanding of what an "exposure" means, and it is a serious difference from other CNAs. Linux CNA-assigned CVEs just can't be taken as seriously as normal CNAs.