20hrs instruction and you can fly (although not further than 50km and with not more than one passenger) a Group A aircraft without any instructor supervision.
I have no view on this myself but it has been said that this is actually not that different to somebody flying solo pre-PPL. You can do that in an unlimited manner, subject only to how much money you want to spend on .... flying! And you can go much further than 50km.
I think the EASA LPL is a waste of time, now that any IFR add-on route has been excluded. But what does everybody here think has been the driver behind this product? There is an "industry" driver behind most regulation - even if not obvious. The UK NPPL was driven by flying schools who wanted a lower cost product on their price list, but actually it ended up failing that because most of the takeup is existing PPL holders who fail their Class 2 medicals. IMHO, the industry driver behind the LPL is the huge European "plastic ultralight/sports" industry. Surely, they have what they wanted??