No offense, but I would rather not have the award than to fill in the rest with FT8 and then think it was the same as doing it all on CW.
There has never been a "mode" restriction on 5BWAZ. It's not even offered.
So I don't know what you are getting at. Take it from someone who earned it -- it is damn hard enough without people adding all these other "you gotta restrict your activity to X" types.
Hey, if you can get it all CW, more power to you. I couldn't and I frankly didn't want to. I don't know anyone who actually holds the award that did. Someone probably did, but I don't know them.
The number of people stuck on 199 for five or ten years is a constant since I was part of it. Some people never
do get that last one or five zones they need.
I guarantee you, after five years of just missing, a lot of people are looking for
any legal mode. I used JT65 to work India, barely, for 80 zone 22 and am damn proud of it. Required several skeds, too. And, it wasn't even my last zone for the award. I worked AP on 80m on FT8 later on and I'm just as proud of that. I even celebrate a near miss I had on 4S on 80m using JT65 that I had along the way. It's just plain hard. I'll take CW if I ever get the chance, just like I did with JT1CO for 23.
It's hard enough, friend. So take your non-existent faux virtue and stuff it.