There are short term solutions while the devs work on a long term fix. 

On #ameytst for example, click on the spammers profile and see the relays they share with you. Remove them from the general relays tab and you are good.

There is no point/advantage suffering with spam while waiting for a long term solution  

 For sure, I'm all for little temporary improvements and can personally handle the jank.

Thing is that this adjustment as proposed by Vitor seemed dismissive of an actual solution, like as if that manual configuration is good enough UX, which is not. 

But thanks for the tip on how to actually do it!