First of all, why can it not be fixed? And second, in other versions you could erase them. What changed to make that happen? And third, you also can't view the stats of photons in 44.7. eg. Pressure, temperature, and name.
this is the same issue, because of the new changes to photons since v42, they behave as 'ghost' particles in the code, you cannot change them or even detect them properly.