DB6 your "option" has been used and abused, but to no avail...
Trust me , EASA does not care, local CAA's - The ones i've been dealing with- Don't care, Nobody cares. This is it, period.
At the end, all of them just ignore you you're just a nuisance.
What surprises me, besides these isolated personal cases, is that there is no reaction that I am aware of from the big corporate interests.
The way I see it this EASA bureaucracy and the insane regulations it produces is very likely to cause great harm to the industry and the whole sector, yet there does not seem to be any reaction.
How can big companies, airlines, manufacturers, you name them, not have an army of lawyers to deal with the implications and consequences these rules will have on their operations ???