There are no free lunches, and it would appear there are still no ways to protect from impermeant loss! Not a good look the way the DAO was bypassed to make this decision, though I appreciate it was likely done to secure it's future. Using powers granted for security reasons for non-security reasons sounds a bit like a shifty nation state.
"Bancor is using powers granted for security reasons to attempt to prop up its struggling IL protection mechanism, hurting their own users when they need it the most."