Not today, but maybe we could be on the road to a solution. OW's response provides two positives:

1. Up till now the current 'wisdom' here was that the airlines had the right to refuse to issue tickets that did not include a particular airline, flight, or order of segments. Now we know that 'rule' or 'right' is false, so next time we are told by airline to go take a jump we just might try to push it a little further. And when pushing gets us nowhere we have the second positive:

2. OW has offered, if given the details, to take the matter up with the airline involved.

So yes, I do agree that it probably will not help at all right now, but at the same time I feel optimistic that things could improve in the long run.