It was actually mentioned at least twice before but it was consequently marked as “not-a-bug” in the one thread that was in the bug section of the forum. The other was posted in feedback. These are the threads:
They never received acknowledgement or commentary from FS, so who knows if FS intends to change anything as a result of those threads. The OP of the bug thread could’ve just relabeled his thread as “not-a-bug”, so I don’t think there is a way to know if that was Fatshark’s doing either(and consequently knowing if they saw it).