That's not what I'm talking about: when a software is late there is a 'panic phase' by the managers where they forbid the creation of 'high severity' bug tickets.
So if there is no more bug tickets what will happen when the managers are in 'panic mode'?
Something to think about before removing bug tickets.
Okay, hmm. It seems like if you already have a lot of high-priority work then logically, most new bugs will go after them in the queue.
And if you're running out of time, that would amount to the same thing, since you'll never get to it.
Also, so long as you have enough work queued up for a few weeks, there is not really much point to stack-ranking the remaining queue items anyway. Everything else is "lower priority".