sorry I'm only getting back to you now - I need to get a second HDMI-Mini cable.
With your workaround it works fine, but you have to make many changes to remote control.
To my knowledge, CEC signal is only at HDMI-0. So with the workaround CEC should work for the TV, but not for the AVR.
Is there a chance to override the supported sound modes for Libreelec forced - this would help ?
LE gets supported audio modes at boot time. To my knowledge, it's impossible to enforce a specific audio mode.
Another thing you can try with the old RPi -> AVR -> TV setup:
Have a look at LE's audio settings. Maybe you have to switch to a different output device (AVR vs. TV).
Or try this setup: RPi -> TV -> AVR. This is what I'm using.