https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38115
--- Comment #10 from Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com --- (In reply to Christian Wehrmeyer from comment #9)
met with a black screen instead (music still played). When I then read that the Wine devs cared more about supporting DirectX 12 than making sure that older APIs worked (Grandia 2 isn't the sole exception here by the way; in the original version of La-Mulana the music didn't play because no one other than Microsoft ever bothered to support DLS files) I sort of gave up on this ordeal and instead decided to move on with my life. Because if the devs don't care about getting this to run on older DirectX versions, then why should I?
I'm not sure where you read that, but that's certainly not the project's policy. Individual contributors will of course always have their personal preferences, but personally I'm not especially interested in chasing the game of the week either.