@J-Dunn nobodys killing anything, [DON'T PANIC] :)
Just that in the past there have been side effects from last minute additions that weren't tested properly. So some of us don't want to take the risk, and some do, so its up to @b4n to decide.
And if the patch is not included, I have suggested that scope should not be distributed by default with this release so as not to hang users Geany unexpectedly.
But in the long term scope needs a maintainer, and when someone takes that job they may decide to modify how it works so it doesn't trigger the bug, instead of this patch. The maintainer may also port it to GTK3.