Errr no idea how that can be delivered to you.
You’d have to keep an eye on the github.
And This has been a long standing issue with Helix and it’s not be confirmed as a bug or a feature.
Also i don’t see a workaround in the issue so not sure what you refer to when you say workaround. (The accepted work around is to take the userID and perfrom a lookup against the Users API)