I wish they had fixed this back when it was first reported. I don't want to cheese my gameplay with broken mechanics, and yet I do want to be able to take advantage of my character's strength and throw a nearby object as a weapon when I need to.
So while people may say "Ah, who cares if it's broken, let people have their fun with it if they want, it's a single-player game, blah blah", the problem is it removes gameplay options for players like me who want to play with well-balanced mechanics. And that's hardly fair. I think it's more reasonable to expect balanced gameplay than broken gameplay.
wot? I finished the game with almost every single side quest done without using any cheesy mechanics. Yes I had a character with 17 STR and did not use this at all ^^.
So yeah, you can avoid any exploit on your own, you don't need it fixed right away to prevent yourself from using it.
