Comment 204 for bug 1728012

I'm amazed that this bug has been opened for over a year and there is no meaningful status update to be found. I'd like to echo the questions and comments posted by another user above at Comment # 197:

I am just a user, thus this post may sound naive but perhaps it gives a different perspective:

Sane used to work until "something" was changed an now it doesn't work anymore for many people. My naive questions:
what was/is the benefit of the change?
do the benefits outweigh the created problems?
if not is there a way to fall back to the original situation?