Bending cast aluminum parts, such as crank arms or stems, is a bad idea. Cast aluminum is grainy and will break easily - when bending, or later, at a bad time.

You might try twisting the FD clamp (counter-clockwise, while looking downward at it) a few degrees on the seat tube so the rear part of the FD cage picks up the chain sooner so you won't need as much outward travel of the cage - keeping the CPSC lip a little farther from the arm.

It's amazing how many changes the CPSC effort brought to bike things to remove imagined dangers that didn't exist. Now if they could do something about steak knives.