We are now 2018, I must assume the development team has already discarded this ticket? Not really what I would expect from a service as big as Evernote to have users do 'workarounds' for this. Hoping this will shed some light on the matter!
(Might be unrelated, so I am gonna make a new thread about this, but the button for adding code blocks disappeared on me today.)
(Also when on latest firefox - w7, the texteditor does not open when you want to reply to a thread. Only the attachements input pops up.)