I commented out the code instructed in that forum post, and it helped.
But it would be so helpful and awesome if this could get resolved once and for all. It sounded like that was meant to be in the past, but we still get this error:
We were able to fix the same issue on another WPEngine staging site, and the fix was included in 4.9.1. That said, your WPEngine staging site has some other plugins that we don’t have. You can try adding the following to a site specific plugin and that may help:
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