Really?
Yes. Reporting the same thing lots of times would probably juts make people wasting time marking them as duplicates of the original report and would not speed up the process of fixing the issue.
Because I do it for years an guess what???
I've been using Opera since a long time and just recently I've started reading about that issue. So I guess it may not be something that lots of people are facing.
There may be many reasons for a bug to not be fix, like:
Bad reporting of the problem
Bug not being reproducible
Fix depending on a third part
etc
What is the bug ID? Have you ever tried to mention it here (without the @ part) so people can know it exists and turn it easier for Opera's people to find it?
That's why I'm not use opera forum for a long time. Also I've taken few times screenrecords with this behaviour but as I said for years nothing...