Good question. Having not played the PC port myself, I only know that it was addressed by the studio (and/or publisher?), and that people stopped talking about it after a couple months. I personally concluded that the game must’ve been fixed to some degree.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC has been ready for at least seven months, it’s claimed (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die (www.techspot.com)
If you were a video game boss, what's the most likely or most fitting way the protagonist may beat you?