That's not a counterpoint, the rest of your comment doesn't follow either. Check the most recent comment for suggestions on how to help out with changing the functionality: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233#note_1106706

If you've got some code to contribute to that, ping the developers on IRC. Adding more comments to that issue isn't helpful. These issues aren't suffering from a lack of comments, they're missing someone to step up and do the work. The original comment was that they were hostile to this, which isn't true.