IO will try to use the existing system to produce more IR pilots who can fly from A to B.
Not at all.
An IR is a huge project, meaningless unless one is a [part] owner of a well equipped plane and has the time and money to sink into acquiring the capability and remaining current. You can nearly forget the casual self fly hire scene, for example, in most locations in the UK.
By teaching people to fly from A to B I am referring to the endless posts on the forums, and endless cases I find personally, where a pilot is unable to plan a route from say Goodwood to Norwich. This is inexcusable, since it renders the PPL license virtually worthless. The evident inability of so many fresh PPLs to go anywhere guarantees they will chuck it in almost right away.
You could try to make a case for a lower grade of license which doesn't require planning and navigation, but that doesn't really square up with inconvenient things like controlled airspace... Unfortunately "we" are all in the same boat now.