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Your suggestions is what I expected that being use in steem blockchain. The code is 2+ years old, this is not new. The software development lifecycle should be in place by now otherwise we're F***ED will expect more issues to come, maybe worst.
As @sircork mentioned, we've seen this issues from last updates from 0.9.12 to 0.20, then we rolled back to 0.19.12 due to bugs.
If they need more tester before releasing new hardfork, we have close to 100+ active witnesses willing to participate. But, the problem is many of us are not member of the "secret" witness slacks.