I'm saying that the mode-shift suggestion:

    func(arg, name=value,
         *,  # change to auto-fill mode
         alpha, beta, gamma,
         )

will rule out any further relaxation on that restriction, and that is a
point against it. That's a concrete enhancement that we might allow some
time. Whether *I personally* want that enhancement is irrelevant.

It doesn't necessarily have to. 

There's always the possibility of a second mode switch, perhaps using the same indicator as the one related to positional-only signature syntax:

func(arg, name=value,
         *,  # change to auto-fill mode
         alpha, beta, gamma,
         /, # change back to normal positional mode
        delta, epsilon
         )