I'm assuming the minimalism and hackish nature was deliberately chosen to weed out the lowest common denominator and cater only to the niche HN targets.
The rationale is that the value provided by fixing the problems is less than the cost of doing the work.
This particular problem isn't going to cause tons of people to leave, and fixing it isn't going to cause tons of people to join.
Unless someone does the work for free, or manages to get a large portion of the current users to quit over the issue, there's no reason to expect it to be changed.
This is intentional. I forget the specific rationale, however.
So no, to answer your question (though I'm not pg), it likely won't be fixed.