What this really seems to highlight for me is quite how useless bug trackers on large projects used by the general public can be.
249 comments, with so much noise it would be impossible to find any actual discussion amongst them if you tried, most along the lines of "WTF, sort it out Google".
Yup. Most people don't seem to have noticed that it was declined back in 2010, and therefore Google are probably not paying any attention to new comments on it at all.