Re-Enable Folder Renaming

I've noticed folder renaming is no longer allowed in the Drupal 8 version. There is specifically this comment above a commented out submitForm() method in the src/Form/RenameForm:

// Folder renaming is disabled in D8 version.
// Folder renaming is very expensive on remote storage because directories are prefixes to the files.
// Renaming these "directories" requires all the files with these prefixes to be changed. Also, it requires
// all the paths to be changed in the database. Until we find a safe and stable way to do this,
// while maintaining the assigned fids, Folder renaming is not available.

In the section of the code which does the renaming for all contents within the folder, there is also this comment:

         // if this is a folder we have to update the root for this and other files also:
         if (!$is_file) {
           // get all the content for this node.
           // I am not very happy with this fiddling around with the DB.
           // todo: better solution using entities

I have swapped the commented out submitForm() methods and attempted to rename folders without any issues, but I am also unfamiliar with exactly what the issue is. We are not using remote storage for this particular project if that matters. I also was not able to find a relevant issue related to this.

Thanks!