I don't see the problem really. I got knocked out by them almost as soon as I spawned as there was an anthill on my little spawn island and I didn't realize there were super-ants. After that raiding has been pretty easy, just avoiding the fast ones unless they're close enough to shore to boat-road them, raiding the others on the ground. I've gotten knocked out to them a few times when java has one of its 'unexpected errors' while I'm raiding, but never again without that.
I've also just gotten my first ant empress despite raiding, I think, hundreds of them (I've been using ants for everything lol, for bait and food and lp).