Yes, there are various hacks like that.
One needs to keep the IMCR issue red hot, especially at the appropriate time.
The EASA measures are 99% stuff which nobody (who actually flies) actually wants. It is not often in politics that a proposition has such a lousy payoff. The protagonists are mostly political axe grinders who are too ashamed to come out into the open. This is a positive aspect of all this. NO safety case for any EASA measure, and no objective argument either.