It will never be fixed. It's enough to change just one word in their codebase to resolve this issue (did it myself and it works perfectly fine). If it hasn't been done in 4 years, it's likely not to get fixed ever ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, this has bothered me for years... I started making mods for Minecraft recently, so I couldn't resist and fixed this one myself ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It will never be fixed. It's enough to change just one word in their codebase to resolve this issue (did it myself and it works perfectly fine). If it hasn't been done in 4 years, it's likely not to get fixed ever ¯_(ツ)_/¯