Possible Workaround for that Nasty Lightroom Publish/Selection Bug

I have an update on the nasty publish/selection
bug that been plaguing some Lightroom users of late, in the selection shown in the grid is sometimes wrong.

It seems that the bug exists only when Lightroom is started with a
section in the Publish Segmented Grid (“Modified Photos to Re-Publish”,
etc.) is closed. So, if you ensure that all segments are open, then restart
Lightroom and maintain them open, your grid-selection experience should be bug
free.

Example showing two sections, one open and one closed

clicking on the little triangle to the left of a section label toggles between opened and closed

The opened/closed state of each grid section is globally shared among
all collections, so opening all four possible sections (New, Modified,
Deleted, and Published) once takes care of it everywhere.

Bug or not, you can always trust the selection shown in the filmstrip,
so until this workaround is confirmed for sure, it's best to keep the
filmstrip open so that you can notice any divergence.

This seems to be a big breakthrough in understanding this bug, and I
know that Adobe is aware of it (because they tipped me off to the
workaround to begin with), so I have hope we'll see a fix sooner rather
than later.

I really hope “sooner”, because being able to close a grid section is
the only thing that makes the segmented grid useful in large collections. I wish the current grid header would be sticky to the top of the screen as
you scroll so that you know what section you're in if the header doesn't
happen to be visible. I have some collections with more than 100,000 items,
making a visual search utterly impracticable. Even a relatively small
collection of 2,000 photos makes for 300+ rows of thumbnails to scan; very
unfun unless you get lucky.

I wonder whether it'd be better overall to just get rid of the Segmented
Grid, instead adding a “Publish Status” item to the Grid Filter.....