Looking back at my initial commercial training, I think the astonishing omissions were more in the ground school. We did lots of completely pointless and useless stuff for hele pilots: the design of engne air intakes for supersonic flight (!) , how to flight plan a transatlantic flight at FL nose-bleed, but there was absolutely no mention of helicopter performance categories.
As JL says, I would not expect to do operatiional famil & training as part of basic training.
On the other hand, I remember when I did my FI rating, it struck me as very strange that there was no mention of how to do a trial lesson and the hazards associated with that mad person in the right hand seat - probably one of the most risky air exercises in the syllabus, in my view. Of course, most new FIs do little other than trial lessons initially, unless they are very lucky.