Urgent: Need to disable widget areas

I need a way to disable the widget areas functionality within Enfold. It does not appear to confirm to the Codex and when making custom widgets and then using other plug-ins with custom widget areas, everything gets messed up. This has been documented in past tickets on this forum.

I am at an impasse, as I have tried every possible workaround to achieve what I need, and everything points back at the way Enfold handles widget areas and the naming convention. I am not here to argue the merits of either strategy, but to say I need the plug-in functionality just as much as I do the theme functionality. So, that leaves me in a very precarious place: between the theme developer and the plug-in developer. I do not want to start arguments, wars, etc. I just need to find a working solution, so I can get back to doing what I need to be doing.

I need to know how to disable the functionality within Enfold for its widget are handling. I need this, so that I can use a plug-in to manually map the widget areas using the Codex approved methodology, which is what every plug-in developer is telling me is needed.