I personally would drop a couple a hours off the PPL and add a couple of hours aerobatic instruction instead before issuing a PPL.
No regulators dont get everything right but DO get a lot wrong.
Yep, but chipping away at me trying to get me to agree with you won't work either!!
I have told you my position which by chance is the same as the regulators world wide.
I may have it wrong and they may have it wrong so if you have evidence to support a change back to the old school please feel free to present it.
Otherwise I think we have pretty much done the subject to death!!!