Thank you for passing that along to your product team, I really appreciate it! Another good solution might be to mark some of the events as non-interaction events so that they still push to GA without impacting bounce rate. This would reduce the need to customize.
From Google's documentation:
In some cases you might want to send an event as a non-interaction event. To do this, specify the nonInteraction field as true in the fieldsObject of the send command:
ga('send', 'event', 'Videos', 'play', 'Fall Campaign', {
nonInteraction: true
});