This class of problem will soon be fixed with LLM agent that can just say "Yes, I can verify this is still not fixed". You just post the issue and then hook it up to your agent and forget about it. It can keep posting that there is an issue. It could even "bump! this is affecting crucial internal workflows" or similar every now and then.
And if the maintainer does close the issue, you can have the agent make a disparaging blog post automatically.