You don't need to wait for Red Hat management to decide to do something, it's open source. If your company is a heavy user of libinput and isn't already paying

You don't need to wait for Red Hat management to decide to do something, it's open source. If your company is a heavy user of libinput and isn't already paying for Red Hat subscriptions, then it's perfectly reasonable for your company to consider paying their own engineer to upstream some changes.