I did, and the original dev of the component fixed it within a few days. It was straightforward, a backwards reading of a spec, reordered.

The fix is still sitting unmerged many months later.

This surprised me since I thought the project was in heavy bugfix/compat mode. I won’t touch it until I see some velocity on open bugs.

I have. It has been an open bug upstream for years as well.

Reporting bugs before Ubuntu releases has never worked for me. They always land a bunch of major changes after the supposed "freeze" then they ignore all feedback because of the freeze. It's infuriating.