I am also informed from a very reliable source that the chute was the only way for cirrus to obtain certification due to this very issue.
You need to get better sources. Europe required a spin series to certify the aircraft. I know people who have recovered the SR22 from a spin. The focus was on spin prevention rather than spin recovery since the two can run counter to each other. When an aircraft is the number one selling plane in the world then the competition puts a lot of false data out there.