Someone from sales contacted me to try to sell me the system. I mentioned this and they were not aware of this as an issue.
They did not come back to me, so I would say this is something they are not looking at fixing.
I think they see this as a cash cow for companies who pay by number of contacts.
This issue made the system unuseable for us.
Curious business decission as I believe more companie would use Hubspot if this was fixed.
This would generate more income longterm as the companies who are using it have commented here and will eventually find another product.