Theory is one thing.
Reality another.
You need to test this on a narrowband Me7.1 car.
I have - for a long time and in reallife conditions.
To end this here, i would really like to point out.
Know your ethanol content.
I do not need to test anything on ME7.1 and I know what the reality is, I have driven long enough with my flex setup and watched my gauges and fuel corrections for long enough
on a narrowband ME ECU.
You fuel up the car with the slightly different Ethanol content (enough you go to Germany to get E10 instead of E5), you let it drive at mid load for some minutes, your LTFA will adjust and you are all set. If you fuel it up and floor it straight from the gas station, then sure, LTFT won't help you.
You say you lean out going from E75 to E85. For the sake of argument let's assume you tuned for AFR 11.5 at WOT, then it "leans" out to 12.0 AFR. Your LTFT needs to be at 1.03-1.04 to sort this out, I get such trims on a stock car just from the stock tune imperfections, quality of fuel, weather, or blood sugar levels of my neighbor. I can believe there are setups pushed to the edge where dropping this 0.5 AFR is dangerous, it does make a difference, but then if it is on the edge, then something else will blow your engine sooner or later. If your leaning out is substantially higher for this assumed scenario, then there is something else wrong, not the ethanol content
If your LTFT does not adjust after mid load driving, then there is something else wrong, like your trims not working at all.