But isn't that why we have restricted and unrestricted instructors?
No we have Restricted Instructors so that they can learn the judgment necessary to decide when to send a student on their first solo. A simple safety requirement nothing more than that. And under EASA a LAFI will need half the experience of an FI to make that judgement!
When the original legislation was drafted (probably alongside the King James version of the bible) Pontius was a pilot
Many of the early rules were made by knowledgeable people who had a first hand grasp of what the legislation was for. Progress seems to have placed people in the position where they make rules that they don't understand. Change creates the illusion of progress and there hasn't been much real progress in recent years.