Could Org maintainers weigh in on bug#42184?

To recap my understanding of the issue:

- org-fontify-whole-heading-line controls whether
  org-set-font-lock-defaults includes the final newline in the headline
  regexp (resp. org-fontify-whole-block-delimiter-line with begin/end
  block regexps).

- This assumes that fontifying the final newline is enough to fontify
  everything beyond this newline.

- This assumption is no longer valid with Emacs 27, where this extension
  is opt-in, using the :extend face attribute.

With Eli's help, I proposed a patch for org-mode against the emacs-27
branch that does something similar to what is done for the org-hide
face: when setting up the major mode, depending on those user options,
the :extend attribute is (re)set for the relevant faces (using a
compatibility function defined in org-compat).

I've reattached the patch for convenience.  Does it look sound?