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My only argument for the practice is to keep in mind that it is only a primary. If the parties don't want to they don't even have to listen to primary results at all. More realistically they could refuse to seat delegates from states that allow for open primaries or some other such thing.
The primaries have taken on a life of their own over the last few decades and becoming more and more integral to the democratic process. This is unfortunate because it is something that wasn't envisioned by the founders of either the nation or the party. This leaves us where we are today, trying to play catch up as the problems emerge.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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