Josh Cooper the difference is that this time an actual fix has been built, that can be leveraged (see the PR). It's not a generic request to build something new, it's a request to adopt a fix that works. I worked on this with Reid Vandewiele and he acknowledges that this would fulfill a customer demand that has been there for 3+ years.
This implementation would be specific to PE only, as it leverages the Package Inspector inventory data. It does not work for Open Source Puppet, hence I created it under the PE project instead of the PUP project.