Funny but sad to see a bug closed with “known limitation”… feels like when I report UI bugs which get closed as “design issue”. Sure, they can close the bugs, but the problems remain.
2.8 is a great leap forward, but I still get the impression that Blender developers love to dig into technical things, rather than usability things… which I guess is logical… they’re coders, not artists… well, except for the new sculpt guy who seems amazing. 
But this ties in with the edit mode performance of 2.8 reported here.
Before 2.8, people didn’t want to use Blender. Now, people want to, but can’t.