That’s the best way to resolve the ‘unexpected difference’ issue that I’m aware of. I have never seen this reoccur after the fix for issue 3800 was put in place, so yes I hope it will be a distant memory once the next beta is released!
What I was experimenting with was a solution where database recreation requires some dblocks to be downloaded. (Different than the problem where ALL dblocks have to be downloaded due to empty source file issue.)