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Some of the conditions for one's Practically Ideal Moral Code mean that it's actually not the case that everyone should use the same one. The publicity condition is a sort of a "ceteris paribus, if everyone was just as well-suited to the use of this code as you and used it, would that be okay?" You could replace this formulation of the condition with something like "if everyone did things mostly like the ones I would do under this code, would that be okay?"
That's a more reasonable position, but I think it may be more optimal to view public morality as an ecosystem. It provides more utility to have different agents occupy different niches, even if they have equal abilities. It may have high utility for most people to eschew a particular behavior, yet society may require some people to engage in that behavior. Having multiple moral codes allows this.
You don't need multiple moral codes, you just need to identify in a single moral code the situations under which it's appropriate to perform that generally-eschewed action.