I've yet to participate in a Beta where it was "easy" to report a a bug.
I should just be able to press a shortcut on my keyboard and create a bug that will fill in the "necessary" information: offset in the world, the region (dungeon, city, etc...) that I'm in, a capture of my screen, my tty and chat log, whatever quests/bitflags/etc that I have active, my buffs/debuffs, my level/class/spec, etc etc... All of those packets and data are available so not sure why it couldn't be used to make reporting bugs easier. If folks in Betas could simple press a key (spam and data requirements aside) and give you most of the info that you need, the team would get much more feedback (assuming QA/GMs/Producers aren't being too heavy handed when filtering it).
Get rid of the /bug or menu->bug report UI buttons and make it really simple to report something. If people abuse it, kick their stupid asses from the closed beta and find people that actually will contribute. Easier that it is to contribute, the more people you'll have doing it *shrugs*
Am sure that GMC has some good internal QA tools; just need to extend that to the smaller betas and make it easier for them to report stuff
And Zehn, who's to say that your flightpath suggestion reached deaf ears? There's always a schedule to keep and things that are higher priority
