FYI the bug cannot be reproduced with any currently supported version of Fedora that has been updated since April 2017. Fedora 25 is the oldest, so I tested with the MATE-Compiz build of that. The current build of gvfs for Fedora 25 is 1.30.4-1. If anyone is using an older EOL build of Fedora then maybe they will encounter this issue.
Because with CentOS 7.3 + MATE 1.16.2 from EPEL it can be reproduced. gvfs is build 1.22.4-8. So not really any big surprise.
I’m not sure any non-LTS distribution would still be affected by this issue unless they somehow overlooked upstream gvfs update releases