XAPI statements in Articulate courses

Although Storyline does support xAPI its too easy to just link to the default Articulate staments.

If you check this link...
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/how-can-i-use-storyline-360-variables-in-custom-xapi-statements-as-number-not-as-string
you will read that upto 2 months ago, custom xAPI statements DIDNOT work due to them not accepting numbers properly. 2 months ago Articulate claims it is fixed, but i have not have seen any nonArticulate linked external developer acknowledge that.