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And absolutely none of that applies to proper nouns, especially not completely made up ones. The public doesn’t get to decide how to pronounce my name, I do. Same for any proper noun.
Of course you do get to have a preference for how people should pronounce your name, because you are a person who can have a preference. They way you just apply that to all proper nouns is wrong, though. An acronym is not a person. It has no preference to how it wants to be pronounced. We, collectively, can absolutely decide that the way it once was intended to be pronounced is utterly dumb and pronounce it in a much saner way.
English doesn’t have rules, it has exceptions, and there are absolutely no rules for acronyms besides needing to be said as a word, so no there is no “saner way” than the actual name.
Here’s the thing though, you can pronounce it however you like, you’ll just be wrong.