When I plan a "UK-style VFR" flight (i.e. one where you may encounter IMC and, being instrument qualified and capable, you proceed in IMC) I plan it on VORs as far as possible.
If there are no VORs handy, NDBs will do, otherwise I use airways intersections e.g. ORTAC, ROLEX, etc.
The airways intersections come in handy when crossing to another country too because you pick ones which lie on the FIR boundary (e.g. SITET) and then your plog will have the ETA to SITET which you stick on the flight plan.
The catch is that intersections are obviously RNAV-only i.e. GPS and no backup exists. I am not concerned about that myself because there are usually other ways in such a case.
It is no rocket science to do this, and one should not read more into it.