Incompatible with Google Analytics module download click event

The download event tracking provided by the Google Analytics module is incompatible with the file rewriting that file entity employs.

File entity rewrites everything to /file/ID/download so when the javascript click event fires on the link the javascript scans to see whether one of the tracked file types is being clicked on. Because the url does not have an extension that matches (it has no extension at all) it doesn't trigger a download event in Analytics.

To resolve this I reverted back to standard url handing as per core's defaults (sites/default/files/etc) which correctly allows the click event to trigger on the detected file path. I did this by overriding the theme function theme_file_entity_download_link(), removing the line:
$uri = file_entity_download_uri($file);and adding:

$uri = array(
    'path' => file_create_url($file->uri),
    'options' => array()
  );

I'd be interested to know what people think to this? I've marked this as a bug report, although it's not really a bug as it works as designed. It's just the design that excludes compatibility with analytics (unless I've missed something).