Yes, life was a lot easier then. We used to fly multiple approaches to fog bound airfields teaching IMC ratings with RVR of one or two hundred metres.
My first attempt IR got cancelled after I had positioned the aeroplane to the test centre and landed from an ILS with 600m rvr, perfectly legal with a UK CPL but no IR, only to be told the weather was below CAAFU limits so we couldn’t fly. So perfectly legally, I got back in the aeroplane on my own and flew away again....
The good old days for PPL training before it all got complicated...