Edit: actually there might have been some movement on this after all? Some comments in that ticket seem to indicate that this has been improved on master.
Thanks for linking this, I hadn't come across this before. You're right there does seem to be some very recent progress. I'll have a go with what's in the master branch there.
Edit: actually there might have been some movement on this after all? Some comments in that ticket seem to indicate that this has been improved on master.