Why such poor support for iCal?

On the first two pages of this forum, only TWO questions are marked as answered (My own question has been viewed 36 times - no responses at all). Many of the questions refer to fairly serious 'buggy' behaviour by the iCal application. By doing a little Googling, I have found many similar complaints elsewhere, going back several years.
It seems that Apple has a rather unsatisfactory application here. Why is this not being fixed? Does anybody know of any impending major updates that will produce a calendar app without the kind of problems encountered on this forum?

These forums are user-to-user. Apples involvement is limited to providing the platform and monitoring for adherence to terms of use (which your post probably violates!).
Marking of questions as answered is something that has to be done by the question poster. One of the great frustrations of answering questions here is that original posters frequently fail to give any feedback at all on answers, so other visitors don't know if the answer could help them, and the helper doesn't learn how to give better help.
As for unanswered questions, you must remember that the answerers are just ordinary users. If I, for example, had seen your original question, I would probably have decided not to answer it (I have now answered it with a request for further info) as I don't use invitations myself and so have limited knowledge with which to help you. If someone answers a question, and is not able to help, there is a smaller chance that someone who might know the answer will look at the question.
As for bugs, two points. First, there are millions of users for whom iCal performs satisfactorily. Second, this is not a bug reporting site, so if you don't use the OS X Feedback site, or better the developer site, it doesn't register on the developer's radar.
AK
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:46:43 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: AE CS4 - why such poor RAM preview on my FAST machine?
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