As far as I know, the IMC rating is not a full instrument rating, am I wrong ?
The flight training is not the same, it is reduced, am I wrong ?
If it was, that would be named "instrument rating", and you would have no restrictions when flying IFR with it, am I wrong ?
The point I was trying to make is that neither the content of a EASA IMCr (which you dont' find acceptable) nor the content of a private-IR (which you do find acceptable) is defined. They could very well be the EXACT same content! Same training, same instructors, same theory, same flight test! There doesn't seem to be any possibility of getting an EASA Private IR, so why not work towards an EASA IMCr which has the content that you'd like to see in a private IR? It would be just an private-IR with a differnt name!
Is that wrong
Don't get too hung on on the name of the qualification
dp