Conforming alternative only when compliance cannot be accomplished? (was Re: Conforming alternative for mobile should not be Desktop)

At a stretch, if there really is such a concern that developers will use 
"alternate accessible version" as an excuse to server sub-par 
experiences instead of making any effort to make their "mobile" version 
work (though as I mentioned repeatedly, I think the danger of the 
"desktop" version being sub-par would be highly mitigated by making sure 
WCAG 2.1 has appropriate SCs to fight any "sub-par-ishness", here's a 
thought (since 508 was mentioned at one point in this discussion): how 
about adding a non-normative Note 9 to "conforming alternate version" 
which borrows some of the wording from 1194.22 (k) and says

Note 9: authors SHOULD [ed: in the actual RFC 2119 sense] only rely on 
having a "conforming alternate version" when compliance cannot be 
accomplished in any other way

P
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