Given that it's already the most upvoted open Android framework bug, and the Google employee it's assigned to hasn't touched it in almost a year, it seems unlikely that more upvotes will make any difference whatsoever.

Where's the meme of the guy who gets hired on to a tech company, fixes one bug that always annoyed them, then quits immediately

In such cases it's always better to just open a new identical bug and hope it gets assigned to someone more interested/competent, and no one notices it's a dupe before that.

I agree, but chance favors the tickets that someone internally champions, and there are plenty of Googlers lurking here.