No. The NPPL will be much as the 'old' UK PPL was. Except that the better accreditiation criteria for glider and microlight pilots will make learning to fly cheaper for many - and the medical standards will make learning to fly more accessible for others. There will be a mandatory IF training requirement; the amount in the 'old' PPL was, if anything, excessive as it gave pilots an unwarrranted level of confidence in their limited IF abilities; the 1 hour I received back in the late '60s was enought to convince me never to get caught in IMC until I'd been trained to cope with it properly. So - knock 3 hours of IF off the old PPL course, add the 2 NPPL Skill Tests to the NPPL course and the experience levels are pretty much the same as they were pre-JAR/FCL.
What's being left out? Radio navigation and that's all. Personally I doubt whether many people will manage to reach NPPL Skill Test standard in 35 hours - but if they do, then they can take the tests.
The NPPL Skill Tests will be no 'easier' than the current JAR/FCL PPL Skill Test - the only thing they won't contain is position fixing by use of radio navigation aids and tracking to/from a beacon for 5 minutes. And they will be designed to be taken in 2 halves much as the 'old' PPL tests were.