I think this is a good idea.
Even if it is really a tacit admission that PPL nav training is a load of outdated crap, that nothing can be done to modernise it, and that some people will always be getting lost and busting CAS, so they may as well all set 0013 on their transponder and run a listening watch on 120.625 on their radio so if they do get lost they can be called up and told what to do
I bet the cost of all the committee meetings involved in working out the 0013 code would have covered the free issue of a Garmin 296 to all new PPLs issued this year so far.