>In this case, [X] would improve things more quickly than [Y].

Maybe so, but more importantly why are you phrasing this like it's an either/or choice?

"We, the developer community, contain multitudes." Clearly we can (and should) do both.

Besides the obvious benefits at the higher community level of organization, deploying both solutions will result in even less bandwidth and power wasted from this specific bug than using either solution by itself.