It's amazing bugs like this persist, even with the significant resources of several megacorps allocating legions of full-time developers to the codebase.

To save you having to read a really long comment thread: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/30/android/launching-a-ne...

Basically, FB's engineering replaced it with a full chromium based webview and explained the reasons android webview sucks ass.

unfortunately nobody cares :(