The bottom line here is if you can convince your AHJ it is OK, it is OK. Otherwise your fight is with NFPA. Convincing us isn't going to accomplish a lot. I think you should come up with code acceptable language for the right article we need to change and write a proposal for the 2023. The closer you are to the exact language you want to add, delete or change goes a long way towards therm taking it seriously along with substantiation.
