That's pretty bad, can't believe a bug that was spotted in beta is now even apparent in release, let alone taking 2-3 months to fix it.
Do you have any proof that this was discovered in beta? Yes we have, at least 1 person here, claiming to have spotted it in beta, but there is no proof it was reported. My information was that it was not reported during beta.
What I think is "pretty bad" is people railing against Microsoft for relatively minor bugs. Office is an immense conglomeration of millions of lines of code that is developed by different teams with different focuses. That's why MS does public betas to try
and catch as many such bugs as possible. It is totally unrealistic to expect software as complex as Office to be totally bug free on first release. The hope is that bugs will be relatively minor, affecting narrowly defined combinations of circumstances. This
is, in my opinion, the circumstances we are dealing with here.
I can understand and appreciate the ire, if you have to do something within this specific set of circumstance and it doesn't work. But, before you start heaping derogatory comments, you should step back and look at the bigger picture here. That's what I'm
trying to bring to this discussion, a more global perspective.
"it's prompted us to look into other software / systems that will replace Access, OneDrive and, eventually, MS 365 products completely."
That is your prerogative, but I doubt if a) you will find a product that offers the depth and breadth of features that Office does and b) you will find a product that does not have the same issues with bugs.