Post count still not working

I have the same issue as identified here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/post-count-error-2/

The post count is product_cat is currently a sum for products in main cat and sub cat , so all product in subcat are counted twice.

The thread is marked as resolved, but it is not, because as @adrianpajares says, the solution only works for top level categories count. The count of sub-categories is still wrong.

It seems to me that the plugin doesn’t count posts in each category separately, but rather counts posts in the bottom level categories, and for higher level categories it just displays sums of those counts plus whatever is in that higher level category. So when a single post is assigned to both parent and child categories, it’s counted multiple times. For example, if one post is assigned to all of Cat1, SubCat1, SubSubCat1, SubSubCat2, the plugin will display:

Cat1 (4)
– SubCat1 (3)
– SubSubCat1 (1)
– SubSubCat2 (1)

While it should be:

Cat1 (2)
– SubCat1 (2)
– SubSubCat1 (1)
– SubSubCat2 (1)

I think in the previous version of the plugin it worked properly by default (a few years back, before it was reinvigorated)

Weirdly enough, the solution from the thread linked above seems to fix things for the top level cat, but not for the subs, producing something like:

Cat1 (2)
– SubCat1 (3)
– SubSubCat1 (1)
– SubSubCat2 (1)

Is there a way to fix this for all levels of subcategories?