Bugbear in a sentence as a noun

The OP has a point, but his choice of DevOps as the bugbear is clumsy.

I know that there's a bit of a bugbear with some people when it comes to reimplementing CSV parsing but having it in-browser could be very handy.

This is a case of a man who really had no intention to do anything wrong, but almost certainly did break the law in a pattern that's a notorious bugbear in finance.

Bugbear definitions

noun

an imaginary monster used to frighten children

See also: bogeyman bugaboo boogeyman booger

noun

an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson

See also: hobgoblin