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There's plenty of closed source packages or components with a single actor ultimately accountable for it.
Imagine a tester even bothering to open a bug that starting a session takes 500ms longer to start than it used to. Imagine what the development manager is going to do with that defect. Imagine a customer complaining about that and the answer the company will give. At best they might identify the problematic component then ask the sole maintainer to give the "working as designed" explanation, and that explanation won't be held to scrutiny, because at that point it's just a super minor performance complaint.
No, closed source is every bit as susceptible, of not more so because management is constantly trying to make all those tech people stop wasting time on little stuff that doesn't matter, and no one outside is allowed to volunteer their interest in investigating.
Checking time to login is more likely in the security sector than anywhere else. A number of vulnerabilities based on timing have been identified and removed in the past.