DY: I agree it’s shaky ground. But it’s Shver when major Poskim start working around a pretty clear and B’feirush Shulchan Aruch. I think this is the most sensible explanation, and not that that changes the Halachic authority given by those decisions in the slightest.
(The Chassam Sofer has a T’shuvah where he says that one is allowed to exaggerate an Issur Derech M’litzah if he sees that it is being trampled upon.)