IMC is a cloud break procedure for an instrument approach. Continuous IF is not intended.
Cobbler's awls
I use my IMCR routinely for continuous Instrument Flying in solid IMC and then arrival and approach. I've recently done SRA into Gloucester and ILS into Cambridge both in seriously crap weather, where mere glimpses of the ground until short final were the order of the day. Hard work but not stupidly so with GPS other radio aids and basic autopilot available.
As many others have said it's about currency, use it or loose it.
However I agree it's not an IR