Sorry for your loss, buddy.
Whether or not this was wise or foolish, and needed to be a "learning experience" is a highly variable, individual measure. Depends on one's financial tolerance, what the drone was being used for, the value of the...
In my opinion a big part of the reason for VLOS is the gross insufficiency of training as required by the TRUST mechanism, which won't be meaningfully helped by 360 observation capabilities.
Perhaps as part of modification to 107 certification...
DJI really should disable this in firmware. At the very least refuse to take off, with an incompatibility message displayed. At best, refuse to even power up.
Since we already know the battery type and model is available to Fly, there's no good...