Hello,
Just to give you another viewpoint - I've done a lot of flying in the past (I stopped flying while the children grew up) and never once pushed the VMC limits. And this wasn't only with little local flights, having flown non-stop from Saarbrucken to Toulouse and loads of other multi-stop flight up and down France.
I've now started doing trips again and still have no intention of pushing VMC limits but will still be going places
It is possible, although not always possible on the day you want.