I have been told that Homebriefing only sends VFR flight plans to the departure airport and relies on them to do the job properly.
Yes; I recall something like that too.
As the pilot gets more experience they will either come to the realisation that most reasonable sized airports have some means of filing flight plans and getting weather briefings for visiting pilots. They will also come to the realisation that having your own means of accessing the internet and filing this stuff online is the least troublesome method in the longer term.
Very true. This (visiting pilots) is also why AFPEX is not the solution hoped for, because the people who brought it in seemingly forgot that there are loads of foreign pilots who cannot get an AFPEX account
Rather than indulge in the usual 'I can *iss higher up the wall than you' pprune practice.
Can you give an example?