Nope, no fix for this, just the workaround which you mentioned.
Unfortunately VMware weren't particularly helpful in qualifying what operations are "safe" to do in vCenter that won't conflict with anything in vCD. It would be helpful to have an official KB article of what is safe and what is not safe to do. They wanted me to list all the things I wanted to do so they could qualify it but I don't really have time to test things for VMware so I pointed them to this post.
