SayagainSlowly
You obviously are a good instructor. In an ideal world what you say should be true.
When I got my PPL and IMCR years ago it was a boom time. The flying school was very busy it was a job to book an hour slot with one of the instructors on a sunday morning and often you had different instructors on each lesson.
Briefings were short and often a case of sort it in the air which was not the right invironment for sorting the complexities of instrument flying.
In my early commercial flying I used the sim to fly my next days trip with Sids and stars and instrument approaches, With MSFS at the level I had it I could even put in the forecast weather and winds. Both trips simulated and real were uncannely simular.
Pace