In my opinion, this "conflict" is nothing to complain about.
If a GC team wants to play in VCL, they should not have the opportunity to "fall back" on the GC split as a back up, the same as the other teams. It would be unfair that a team loses in VCL, and then can just go back to farming GC.
GC is a place for marginalized people to find a safe place to start their career, not an ending. Riots end goal seems to be that, eventually, tier 1 valorant will be a co-ed place, but that wont happen if teams can switch from VCL to GC as they will.