Well, sometimes housekeeping happens days before the guests arrive. This is not a rental apartment, it's our apartment that we rent when we are not there.
I contacted Airbnb support and they said I need to fully remove the camera. So unless they rollback or revise this policy by April, I will have to de-list our apartment and move towards other platforms that do not have this nonsense of policy that don't contribute to guests privacy but rather make it less secure for hosts that rely on self check-in.
And given this discussion, it seems that I am not the only one.