After 5 years of foot-dragging they finally close the ticket to community protest:

This feature request is being closed as our current focus isn't in this area.

We appreciate your input and contribution to improving our product. While this feature may have merit, we need to prioritize our efforts elsewhere at this time.

If you'd like to provide additional context about why this feature is important, please feel free to leave a comment on this issue. This will help us better evaluate the feature if we revisit this area in the future.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support in helping us build a better product.