Hi Julian, the Extension Warehouse team is aware of the problem and they aware its causing difficulties for you, other users, ourselves. Unfortunately so far it just hasn’t been the highest priority, or the most important thing to work on next. It just hasn’t made the cut. It’s not the only bug on EW, or the only broken workflow. They have other things they’re working on that so far have just had slightly higher priorities. We haven’t had a lot to say in this thread, because we don’t have an answer as to when it will be fixed. It’s on a list of needed improvements. It’s just not at the top…yet!
Sorry for the not so great news, but hopefully that helps explain why its not fixed yet and why we haven’t said when it will be fixed.
Chris