I don't think this is really constructive any more. Kevin Montrose (SE developer) explained on Meta Stack Overflow why we have the filter and why it's here to stay with some pretty hard data.
Yes, there are workarounds. They've also been documented on MSO, and the team has explicitly stated that they're not going to close the loopholes for now, but will if they get continuously abused.
This discussion has gone on long enough and isn't productive, so I'm locking this post for the time being.
