In list-view, name-column always resizes to "longest name" and user-resize does not persist

When not in fullscreen, and browsing is set to list-view, the name-column always resizes to "longest name" and when the user then resizes the columns to an appropriate size, this resize does not persist, when navigating away etc.

Nautilus exposes this very annoying behaviour for years now, see bug reports
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/94014/comments/5

I just test-drove Marlin just for this and was very disappointed to find that it behaves just the same.
I think a proper pseudo-code logic would be:

if( there's no user set width for colums ){
   autosize
}else{
  set user-defined column width (in percent or pixels)
}