I guess I just don't want to become one of the 'children of the magenta line'.
In that case you better not use GPS at all
And it's hard to see what point you are trying to make.
From a manufacturer's POV one cannot even give away a new plane unless it has a glass cockpit. So that's a done deal. It also weighs a lot less than the separate instruments. I don't know what it costs but prob99 quite a bit less than good quality separate instruments.
Whether a G1000 is "good quality" is another matter; it hasn't been out for long enough to compare with 20- and 30-year old avionics. Some of the old stuff was truly crap (Narco and others) and some of it was very good (Bendix King top end stuff). A G1000 is built like a business-grade laptop and the jury is out on the long term issues.
Also a G1000 cannot be retrofitted (with few exceptions like a King Air or a TBM850) so people are putting in the smaller products like a G500.
Personally I don't like "glass" because one is very restricted as regards who can do any significant work on it. Almost anything is a flight to a Garmin dealer. The old stuff can be worked on or swapped-out by almost anybody but with "glass" the industry has owners over a barrel.
Now that you have your IR, and assuming you actually do some IFR flying around Europe for real, can you seriously avoid the "magenta line"?