Cusco,
You asked, what is the point of this thread.
I think it is: in VMC in Class G, keep a very good lookout.
In IMC on an IFR approach, you should be getting a good service from the tower.
BUT:
when practising IFR approaches in VMC, remember that you and everyone else is actually VFR.
Don't assume other VFR traffic knows what one is doing. One is just another aeroplane in the sky.
It is still Class G, regardless of what one is pretending (for one's training purposes) it is.
And come here and fly in Class E for a laugh - controlled in IMC, uncontrolled in VMC (and yet it can be 25 miles away from the tower that the controllers are in, so who knows when the viz locally - such as over Strathaven - slips from 3000m to 2999?)
Very best,
XA