Interacting with googlers is horrifying. He was ready to commit to the bad decision until he was threatened with a PR disaster of breaking the software used by "hundreds of thousands of school kids".
I can't help but think that if a lowly dev like me were to report the issue the "won't fix" would've stuck.
Hundreds of people saying "My app is broken" isn't data. Someone saying "based on a search of the top Alexa 1 million sites, this will affect 8% of users" will catch their attention.
As a Chromium developer speaking based on my observations, we're also responsive to fixing bugs that affect a small percentage of sites. The difference is prioritization, and whether we'll merge fixes back to stable branches for a respin.
I can't help but think that if a lowly dev like me were to report the issue the "won't fix" would've stuck.