[meibo]

No, you are correct, that is a HackerOne employee filtering the report before someone at Valve looks at it, a lot of companies have this set up and it's not great.

I would be surprised if responsible Valve staff would agree that this is not something they should fix at some point.

[viraptor]

It's still on Valve though. They chose to delegate this and H1 basically becomes their voice here. I wish it was made more clear, but I don't think it's wrong.