Fishing Mini-game POL Crash

I'm tired of the error that causes POL crash and I wish SE would fix it. It happens during the mini-game and has been reported on official forums with no fix in many months. How large is this issue to everyone else? What is its impact? I have crashed in multiple areas, with and without Pelican Ring equipped.

Examples:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/40909-Fishing-is-broken-and-causing-a-crash
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/40757-Playonline-crash-in-Nashmau-while-fishing
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/43186-Randomly-Crashing-while-Fishing-since-the-new-fishing-system-went-in.

As you've said it has been brought up a handful of times, the exact issue has even been pinpointed, but they've left it under the "Plan to address" segment.

I'm not sure if you're a console user or not, but Windower/Ashita have a plug-in that corrects this problem. Other than that can't really say much since complaining on the OF generally doesn't lead anywhere.