Sorry, Colin I misread that it applied to a post-2017 desktop version.
But that doesn’t change the supposition that some situations require the “gifting” of a license.
(I’ve seen it done by you here several times, and I myself have been a recipient of such a “gift”.)
The main point was as you indicated, even being Customer Service, that you could not grant a variance to the license limitation on Make, even for a workaround.