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Not so much a "runaround" as "established procedure by the FAA". The big restriction is that you really can't use them for commercial purposes.

But they're getting rid of the LODA requirement for experimentals at least so flight training can be done again in them at least.

LODA requirement is gone now btw

"They" in this case is Congress. The FAA never does anything unless forced to do so by Congress.