A family of Microsoft relational database management systems designed for ease of use.
So what is it now? 10 or 12 months since Microsoft created this problem? Is the current state of the issue still that there has been no official fix from Microsoft?
Yep, you pretty much summed it all up.
Update 2019-03-25
I was informed (by the moderators of this forum) that the above was not helpful, so let me be more explicit in my answer: "basically, absolutely nothing has changed and the only option remains implementing the DisableLeasing registry hack workaround."