A quick note here that I was able to make the wallet:transaction:send scope work as described in this thread:
It’s a little more work, but it gets me unblocked from having to depend on the Request Money feature. Interestingly enough I did try the wallet:transaction:send approach first many moons ago before careening into request money, but didn’t understand the workflow which made think it was broken (too).
Now that I have a better understanding (thanks to this forum :)) I was able to get it working and have a workflow in place to make it viable.
So, I no longer need this feature, but would very much like to see it fixed, if not for the sole reason of developer pride. 
Thank you again for all your effort out there and for dealing with runts such as myself that double as a thorn in your side from time to time. 