The ex RAF WW2 pilot who did most of the instructing for recovering my PPL after 21 years not flying, did not include the mandatory loss of control in cloud in my instrument training - just the PPL instrument stuff.
In my first few months as a PPL, I twice got into cloud, went on to instruments, and got out with no problem.Next year I got my IMC, but didn't use it. 5 years later I again got into cloud, and again got out of it, despite sluggish vacuum instruments.n
Convincing people that they WILL lose control makes the PPL and IMC training useless.