swh, many VCAs or other blunders have no doubt happened for various reasons at various times; I'm asking you why it would be against the spirit of the regs for me to fly the departure as described above.
I find it difficult to believe that the authors of said regs would deliberately set out to create an anti-common sense situation.
How about if I climbed in the circuit to 3000, positioned myself within the circling area so that I was tracking overhead the airfield to depart on track; then by your logic I could then descend to 2000 (avoiding the need to do the dreaded climb to 2000) and then headed off?
I would have still done all the manoueuvering that you imply might lead to a VCA, plus an extra climb and descent, but would now be descending after a visual fix to a new lowest safe, as per the order.