What do you mean bad 80s action movies?

Same

If ffmpeg was not an open source project, and somebody submitted a super obscure ai surfaced bug

The bug would be fixed exactly never

I fail to see how funding them would change that

Sure, if we forget about specifics for a bit, in general terms it does sound reasonable. And they should be sponsoring ffmpeg anyway as they are using it.

However some bug reports should just not happen in the first place