Yep. That concept is just plain stupidity.
As mentioned before skipping cut scenes or dialogs. You play it X amount of times, you seen or heard it before.
Not fixing bugs in patches. If the company can't front up the money to fix it, do it on your free time and release it as an unofficial patch. You know the ins and outs of the games you can fix it faster and better than someone who has to tinker around with the codes, scripts, etc.