A temporary solution to decaying leaf issue

Hello, it has come to my attention that leaf decay has been disabled because of an issue with trees.
This makes it painful to cut down trees if you are by yourself and are attempting to make a city. Until we can get treecapitator there is a simple solution to this issue. We could turn on leaf decay and for those who have problems with decaying leaves, simply grow new trees and have staff members replace said leaves with the leaves found here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/secret-blocks-vanilla/
Thank you, Good day
-Swig

why not just just fix the tree problem all together

It will eventually be fixed via the treecapitator plugin, but until then this is a solution to the decaying leaf issue