I mean, that thread has a comment less than a day ago, and Niko says:

> I'm going to lower this from P-high to reflect reality. I'm still eager to investigate but haven't had time, and making it P-high is not helping =)

P-high means someone is actively assigned and working on it, so yeah in some sense this is a down-prioritization, but only from "Someone is working on this, so put your work somewhere else" to "this is open to work on"; the de-prioritization may lead to it getting fixed sooner, as Niko is a busy guy.

So, "nobody wants to deal with" feels like a mischaracterization to me here.