Well, they are more like guidelines.. you can stamp with your feet as long as you like, it wont change the outcome..
What CAN change the outcome is to avoid flying LX (or better said, LH group) and to choose carriers that don't play this kind of games whenever possible (not always possible when living in DACH) - if enough people chose to avoid flying them (and also important, suggest to friends&family not to chose them) they might eventually rethink their "great" McKinsey plan before they push them into another grounding