Thank you BW.
My recollection is GASIL and SafetySense both make these type of comments periodically.
I don't agree with the comments - my point was simply there have been a number of people who advocate this limited role of the IMCr (and a reasonable number of pilots who seem to agree), and this view is likely to result in a lower fraction of IMCr operations occurring in hard IMC than IR operations.
However, I do agree with IO's point that trogging around at 2500 feet in turbulent IMC (and IMCr) is much harder than having a coffee at F100 in an airway and glorious sunshine (an IR).