"...Settle for this at Point No Point?"

You mean settle for this everywhere. This is the start of ramp permits routinely being denied, and ramps therefore closing. Why would a tribe with a ramp in it's U&A would approve a permit. What's in it for them?

The Corps has decided to relinquish its federal authority on saltwater permitting, and defer to a separate sovereign government to make the decisions on our rights to access federal surface waters.