While I don't know about the ins-and-outs of globbing libraries (and, therefore, can't judge ease, etc)...
The whole "it's rare [and an obscure (imo) work around exists] so let's not worry about it" is a reason to reject a feature, NOT a bug fix.
As Alan already has done much and is prepared to do more of the work, I hope his patch is accepted.
The only bug is that it doesn't report that you have exceeded the capacity of the command-line argument globbing.
Extending the capacity of command-line argument globbing would be an enhancement. There will always be a limit.
If rsync refused to transfer more than 1000 files per invocation would that be considered to be a bug? Of course there will always be a limit (probably how much memory you can allocate), but the current restriction seems both arbitrary and surprising, especially in this case when the underlying glob implemetation works just fine with > 1000 files.
-- Alan Burlison --
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