A 3 year old ignored bug is one thing, but this is just a feature request. I don't understand all the outrage just because BitBucket doesn't yet consider this a worthwhile feature. They're under no obligation to implement this feature and they would probably get even more flak if they had said "maybe" or "eventually" once a year.
In this particular case I don't see the point either although Atlassian does have a strong history of ignoring customers. The big one I know of off hand that led me away from them is below: