>There is no conspiracy that there are a bunch of people out there that want to give you a bunch of work to do just to mess with you. 100% of these people are honestly affected by the issue and would like it resolved.
I don't know if you noticed, but the wiki article appears to include instructions for 4chan users on how to use this issue to troll and rile up Linux users. If you include whoever wrote that article and whichever 4chan users have read it then it's probably a good deal less than 100%. And honestly I've seen this trolling on reddit and hacker news pop up before several times before, almost every time the file chooser gets mentioned it seems to be a result of some 4chan trolling. Of course the issue is going to get locked if it's getting brigaded by 4chan trolls. If people honestly wanted to get it resolved, they would have written a merge request for it.