It is odd this highly visible bug is still standing.
While it doesn’t seem likely this would be a difficult and complicated fix, we can’t honestly claim it’s easy.
Another tin hat thought is the item stack limit buff. The minute they make cornering a market harder by combining servers commodities they increase the stack limit by 5 times making it more likely you can scrounge enough storage space to start trying to corner markets again.
Holding 50k herbs only takes 50 slots, not 250.