Your solution is great.
However...rest assured it'll never get implented because some long-haired, Gaia-worshipping, granola-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, butt-ugly libtard freak (male or female) will come protesting with their brain-dead fellow travellers, weeping before the cameras, screaming, "The Erf is dyyyyyiiiinnnnngggg!!!!!! Somebody saaaave the Errrrffffff!!!!!"
I saw a woman being interviewed a couple days ago when this first broke.
She was really upset and said she was parking her newly bought TDI.
Crazy
If I owned a TDI I'd do my best to ignore any fixes that may be coming down the pike.