Hello Tommie and thank you for reaching out.
You are right, this is a super old issue and yes it is very frustrating.
Unfortunately, this is the way the importer was built. So until the importer is rewritten, it will be impossible to fix it.
There's a plan to rewrite the importer but no actual time frame was set yet.
I expect this issue to be a limitation for a while.
Very sorry :(
MC