Unfortunately, those do seem to be your options without a lot of effort of recreating the macro in such a way that it is compatible with webwork 2.16.
If you are upgrading, I recommend upgrading to 2.19 instead of 2.18.
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insert missing macro (draggableSubsets.pl)
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