This is indeed a huge bite, but it has the legitimate potential to change the way we design and build everything. The comments on the original thread are closed, but I'd be happy to answer any questions in this thread.
Sort of ironically, my attempts to report a bug, and request a feature, have both been stymied; one by a 500 error, and one with a warning from chrome that synchronous xhr requests have been deprecated.
I am also in the process of moving from a lamp stack to python/Django on AWS. I'll have to look at the ssl and see what's happening.