Supplies for Spies still bugged

Yelinak server, Secrets of Faydwer released a little over two weeks ago.
Supplies for Spies is one of the quests for the Model XLII Spatial Temporal Oculus augment.
Steamwork Spy Mk-VII is up all alone in The Steam Factory and has been there at least a couple of days.
Since the spy is already up, nothing happens when you go to the location to spawn the spy and guardians. Since there are no guardians to kill, you cannot complete the last step of the quest.
I sent in a petition and the reply I got from GM Spoom was that CS is unable to manually adjust the issue for immediate correction and that I should submit this bug report.
It looks like this issue has been around for at least a year without being fixed. I get that the fix may be complicated and that the bug wouldn't be a very high priority bug, but what I don't get is why the CS team can't just depop the mob until the issue has been fixed.
Multiple people are stuck at this point in the quest and are waiting for a zone/server reset to be able to continue.

its been around longer then that it was a problem on aradune / riz to.