You can process payments if you select correct API version in your stripe dashboard. Since there is a workaround for this issue it does not have such priority as other as some other tasks. Believe it or not, there is a ton of more pressing issues we need to work on.
Also, since this is an opensource module - feel free to fix it yourself, or hire a developer and pay him to fix this. Then you can share the fixed version with the community for free. After all, that what you expect from us, isn't it?