Unless the rules have changed.....PS, looks like they haven't
You are completely correct. In 35 years of flying, I still don't have those requirements.
Some pilots went out of their way to do those cross-countries, just to enable NVFR during IFR operations.
Before GPS Approaches became the norm, numerous airports had no navaids and therefore no letdowns. The only way to get into those airports at night was NVMC.
You went IFR as far as you could, then nominated NVFR Procedures for the last route segment! Otherwise you couldn't go below the LSALT!