As I understand it the objection the conservatives have to this kind of thing isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it does work and that's why it's morally wrong.
As the Craftworld Eldar are painfully aware, many of the Dark Muses were previously living Eldar who uplifted themselves to be a pantheon of minor gods*, and the Haemunculi have also produced plenty of lesser examples of serious body horror.
The Craftworld Eldar already have a working solution for the Thirst. They have the Paths. Sure they involve radical mental self-modifications, but the Ishari approach also involves arguably even more radical self-modification of a kind the conservatives are likely to find much less desirable.
After all, the Paths are usually temporary. If the Curses are lifted a person on the Path can just leave them and resume being their full self. If you haven't given into despair and lost hope, the fact that the Parhs aren't a permanent solution is an advantage, because they don't think it's a permanent problem.
If anything, our news strengthens that position, as with knowledge of the mechanism of the Curses lifting them entirely is suddenly much more possible, if still very hard. I proposed what seems like a theoretically feasible plan rhe Craftworlds could pull off if they can accumulate enough military strength that would fully validate Biel Tan's victory through superior firepower approach.
* and although they don't know it, are still worshipped by the Dark Eldar alongside Khaine because they survived the Fall and so are worthy of it.
I'd expect them to be on the edges of the conference attending fringe events, not in the main room with other leaders. Because they're not leaders.
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