Pace,
Perhaps I did not understand the intention of your post?
I inferred from your remarks that you consider the IMCR rating is intended for VFR pilots who plan only VFR flights, to help them if they accidently encounter IMC. I disagree with that. The rating also allows for planned IFR flights into IMC, including planned, intentional instrument approaches.
However, if you are saying the safety benefits accrue only to VFR pilots who fly in IMC – well, that’s sort of self evident, and non-VFR pilots already have a rating to fly IMC, that is IR.
But your wording ("THE SAFETY BENFITS ARE TO VFR FLYING: Ie get in a mess and you have some skills to cloud fly and even to take a down graded IAP to land") suggests the former, with which I do not agree. The IMCR is also for intentional IFR flights.
I think I must have missed your point.