Been doing that for a while, but it's a workaround at best insofar as the opcache bug is concerned. I wouldn't call it elegant. A thing that calls itself a cache should be able to handle evictions without throwing up.

It's also the kind of workaround that isn't applicable to the vast majority of PHP sites out there: beginners running WordPress on a single box. One day, you update a few plugins like a good security-minded person should do, and this causes a bunch of cache invalidations. Bam! The site is down and the error messages aren't helpful. It really doesn't help bolster PHP's reputation as a stable, beginner-friendly language.