Lol, that's the best response to a bug I've ever heard.  The hippie approach to software design.  Classic.

How dare you sir.  That little electronic soldier has an electronic wife and probably even a few electrons as well.  How callous can you be?

If i put them in a city to 'regrow', most the time i still am stuck with stacks that are missing a unit or two (when they shouldn't be)

They do heal very fast in cities, but it is very goofy that leveling up can cripple them so, even if it's temporary. If you're far from town you pretty much have to send them all the way home or else risk losing them in an easy battle.

Yes! This proves my theory that, given enough bugs in a game, they'll start cancelling out each other at some point!

I would like to point out that half the fun for some people (i.e. myself) is optimization in tactical combat. That is why I have sunk dozens of hours into King's Bounty, as it challenges me to figure out how to win a battle taking little or no casualties. Eventually I get good enough at a game to lose only one or two units over the course of the entire game. It is lots of fun to have a "no man left behind" policy and provides a nice challenge. In age of wonders I did a similar tactic of making sure a certain unit always got the last hit before a kill because only that unit gains experience. So there is definitely a precedent in TBS games for this mechanic and I understand some people just accept whatever happens, but for some of us there is no fun if we can't shape the game in a predictable way.