Good stuff. My point remains though, whether or not the
VB cap gets his F/o to write down 2hrs IF or not doesn't change the amount of instrument flight time the captain has done, which effectively is much more than the minimum required. I'm not saying it's right to make up IF time , but I don't think it's a big deal or in any way dangerous if you are a 737 Captain in a country where you need many thousands of hours to reach that position.
If you've only got a couple thousand hours and you're flying a chieften it's a different story.
The recency of approaches is much more important. ie if you hadn't done a non precision approach in six months then had to do one for real it would be less than ideal.