Yes TWINCOMM but would he have put on a better performance if he had not undertaken IMC training at all? I suggest not. I would also suggest that if the IMC rating was not available, that same individual would probably not have bothered to undertake IR training given that it would appear that he had not kept his IMC current in any event. Im sure that anybody with only say 100 hrs TT has experienced the weather close in and flown into IMC! The point is that your pilot with a lapsed IMC is probably safer than he/she would have been if he/she had not undertaken the IMC training albeit two years previous!
I'm expecting a slapping soon for daring to post in the instructors forum again!