Bulk profile field change of required values

I'm trying to bulk change a field for most of our users. I checked only that checkbox for "modify", but when I attempted to modify the fields, VBO reported that I needed to insert a value for the profile required fields (in this case, "First name" and "Last Name"). I obviously don't want to assign everyone the same name! Would it be possible for VBO to ignore required fields when the checkbox to modify those fields aren't checked? I can work around by "unrequiring" the fields, making the change, and adding the requirement back in, but this is annoying.