Its Just My Opinion But
I think that an IMCr would give me as a new pilot (when I get there) the ability to navigate by instruments rather than map and compass, give me the ability to fly more often, given the crap weather we often get local to the Pennines that seems to improve as soon as you get 30 miles away , and to go somewhere with a purpose knowing that if the weather does become marginal I will know how to best get to where I want to go with the option of getting through the clag and over the weather into clearer sky.
Yes I also want to do my CPL ME AND IR just because it seems the more you know and the more you use what you know the more able you ought to be to cope when it all goes wrong.
Not a get out of jail free card but, as has been said, as a way to get from a to b with confidence.
The better I am as a Pilot the safer my kids will be flying with me!