So does this prove that we don't need an IMCR then? It never ceases me the circular arguments that appear on here with one contradicting the other.
Well everyone has their own view of what GA should be, broadly speaking the people posting about how the 'glorious past' of aviating is being lost and that we should fly PFA types out of farmstrips (one would be forgiven for thinking that is all we will be able to afford soon) are not the same people who are worried about the loss of the IMC rating. Certainly I always feel for another 'branch' of GA when it looks threatened, but it's not quite the same when it doesn't directly effect you.
In the same vain different people have different reasons for starting flying and giving up...cheaper, more exciting planes are obviously part of the solution (someone feel like designing a Tiger Moth II perhaps?) but for different reasons and different people a more accessible IR would be a solution for them as well. The two are not necessarily contradictory, they just represent different views on what aviation means to people.