SS - the LAPL is years away and nobody knows the details. It is fairly widely speculated that VMC on top will be one of the privileges - simply because that is the ICAO default, on which the UK is the only exception in Europe.
But the LAPL is thought to be sub-ICAO, which means all bets are off. They could have all sorts of silly rules on it, appropriate to whatever (reduced) nav content there might be.
EASA's written proposals so far indicate that EASA wishes to deregulate the private flying scene, which is GOOD, but at the same time they seem to operate by getting the implementation details drafted by various committees which are inevitably staffed by the same old vested interests. And if a committee delivers something barmy (which WILL happen on occassions, due to the people on it and all the politics outside the room and under the table) the EASA executive can override the proposal and start again. And no I don't understand it either. This makes any attempt at guessing the future impossible.
My take is that we will end up with a pan-European VFR license, possibly sub-ICAO (this being required to enable a reduced medical), and the huge question is whether it will have any kind of instrument option (which would then offer a way forward for IMCR holders). Basic VFR seems assured, along with sex, chips, Big Brother, football, fishing, and all the other pillars of british intellectual life.
Legal VMC on top is nice, very nice in fact, but let's be honest - who is flying behind you enroute and videotaping the cloud cover around you with a view to prosecuting you for not being in sight of surface because there were no visible holes in the cloud? The real crunch with being limited to VFR is that you cannot afford to get stuck above a solid overcast when at your destination and you cannot afford to get caught out like that even if you have VMC on top privileges. There are various cheats but the only legal method is a Mayday. So, the enroute issue is moot and I would not lose any sleep over it.