Appeals Committee. Disputed situations in tournaments.

I don't even hide the fact that I have an antipathy towards Dark. He's probably a wonderful person in real life, a good friend, a caring family man, but as a player, he's a jerk to me. But that's going off-topic...
The quoted excerpt doesn't give any information; read the entire message, don't distort it.

Yes, don't distort it.
The previous part of the message provides justifications for why Dark didn't want to allow a replay of the entire turn.
That's all.
The quote was about what he would expect from AK as an alternative.
And "at a minimum" and "in the worst case" are still diametrically opposed concepts.
But let's not argue; we need to find a practical way to resolve the situation.
No one was demanding any technical solutions; we need to play, so we need to, as Dark's teammate, I am also interested in this.
And Bishop's team is already waiting – there's no need to give the lower bracket a time advantage over the upper bracket.