They have clearly done this in response to an incident / accident. On the face of it, the requirements seem fairly reasonable and are arguably minimal. Remember we’re expecting aviation uninformed passengers to hop onboard and aircraft flown by a PPL whom they don’t know from a bar of soap.
It was only a matter of time after the fatalities that this was going to happen.
The NVFR one is an interesting one admittedly. I know a few pilots I would let my family travel with in the dark, but some I definitely wouldn’t.