“Some achoaronim were willing to, but there is no contemporary posek who will.”
Not true. An obvious example of this is the unwillingness to accept the Ethiopian Jews as Jews despite the fact no rishon agrees (and the Radvaz paskened otherwise). Another obvious example is the ban on university education; I’ve seen no rabbinic objection prior to the 19th century (and Sforno earned his medical degree at the University of Rome).