Bose,
I have no complaints over the quality of my flying training, standards were high and that is still apparent to me now. I suspect the instructors are responding to how the student progresses, as a student I just didn't know what I was missing and probably didn't communicate my muddle sufficiently. Only with experience has this become apparent. Perhaps my instructors had these gaps adequately filled during their initial training and so didn't perceive my issue. Perhaps my otherwise sterling progress through the PPL hid said muddle. Either way, there doesn't seem to be a detailed and proactive regulations and paperwork briefing.
With regards to the confuser, the CFI of my school was very non-plussed when I fell for one of the PPL Confuser's tell tale 'errors'!