Appium Windows Application Driver not working - looking for version 1.1

Installed Appium and Appium Windows Driver lately (12/18/2019) and observed that I can't get Windows application to be automated. It turns out that Appium v1.15.1 is hardcoded to check for Windows Application Driver version 1.1.

To workaround, I made changes to %appdata%\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-windows-driver\build\lib\installer.js, in two areas:

1. Changed to WAD_VER = '1.2'
2. Changed to WAD_EXE_MD5 = '50d694ebfaa622ef7e4061c1bf52efe6'

See below for complete copy.