Would be nice if we could make everyone happy :) And we do try!
And of course, "pinging" about an old bug is still perfectly fine (in its own thread lol), we're not saying not to do that. Can be worth asking, just in case there are plans and the roadmap is not updated yet, or to help with the prioritization of things by giving us an ongoing count of how many are affected by a bug and how seriously, so that is definitely still valid.
Really all the stuff above I pointed to is just to say "Whatever the reason for it not being fixed yet, it won't be because it's forgotten about", but yep still feel free to ping on a report and go "Any update yet?"