Do you know whether they've relaxed their rules around that install too?
My guess would be unlikely. But that's more to do with the fact that only a subset of engineers will have been trained-up to deal with this newfangled fibre malarkey, and therefore will probably still have limited real-life field experience to be able to understand why things may occasionally need to be done differently.
Which particular part of the install were you thinking of in terms of necessitating flexibility ?