VBO mass updating entity reference fields in field collections deletes these FCs

I understand that there is still an ongoing issue that prevents VBO to properly handle individual fields within a field collection field.
One way is to base the views from the host entity rather than the field collection table. However, this does not permit to edit a single field, the whole field collection is regenerated, which is basically useless.

https://www.drupal.org/project/field_collection/issues/1571622#comment-1... → says basically that and mentions https://www.drupal.org/project/field_collection/issues/2658882 → , which was solved since but not avail.