Group syncing issue possible fix

I know that admins mentioned that:
To all of you who are wondering why your groups aren't showing up:
It's a problem with Steam API in a recent Steam client update. Since this problem extends outside of this site I looked into it. It turns out that on May 13th, 2015 steam updated its web control program which "Improved memory and CPU". I've given some suggestions to support for a workaround, but the problem isn't at all that you have special characters or that your group is glitched sync-wise, but it's rather that Steam API isn't giving us new information from the steam database, because the web control isn't actively updating steam's database like it used to before the update. Therefore any groups created before May 13th haven't been synced. The only way to fix this is for the site to find a workaround to avoid this recent update.

Now, I don't have any experience developing anything that interacts with the steam api; however I do write software for a living. Earlier I was reading the api documentation, and it seems that there could possibly be a workaround for the group syncing issue by using primary groups:

1) According to https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API the below could be used to get the primary group.
primaryclanid - player's primary group, as configured in their Steam Community profile.
2) The annoying part about this is that one would constantly have to keep changing their primary group whenever they need to create/enter ga for a certain new group, but at least it would (possibly) give us the ability to do that.
3) Finally, I have no idea what the site's codebase is like, so this might be painful to implement, but just throwing this idea out there (and again, never worked with steam api before, so forgive my ignorance if this is a silly suggestion).

Cheers,
Assassin