Wow! What a state to be in! But, in all honesty, what else can these smaller operators expect, right? If their pilot base is heading to fly jets with half the time that they require as 135 operators, they are going to have to bend the mins a little and adjust their operating scheme a little bit.
If that was me, meaning the operator, I would be flying my VFR guys to the max every damn day I could to get them up to the IFR mins. Their insurance rates for VFR 135 guys has to be outrageous. Of course, of 3 years that I was stationed in SC, I can't really recall many hard IFR days. Sure, there were the gully-washer thunderstorms that came up, but one could usually find some place to sit it out for an hour while it passed.