If you want to fly IFR then you will put the work in
Quite happy to do so, just so long as it doesn't involve learning the finer points of jet engines and airliner technicalities.
This has all been covered, but as a GA pilot with no wish to fly for a living I feel that failure to replace the IMC rating (which I consider a highly valuable addition to my license) with anything accessible to private pilots to be asking for seriously large amounts of trouble.
There are good IMC pilots and bad IMC pilots, just as their are good IRs and bad IRs. Sure, the standard required to get there in the first place is so much higher that the lamers get more easily weeded out in IR-land, but there are many IMC holders who can quite happily fly SIDs, STARs and holds as well as any IR.