ex-RAF navigators/pilots/air-traficers out there, who are now embedded in the upper echelons of the CAA and EASA rule-making departments
Sadly you are as out of touch as those using an astrodome; the Rule Making process is now the province of Clerks and Lawyers who know the square root of nothing but at least they can't be accused of being biased, that would require knowledge!
My point, not well made, is that you can fly a published NDB procedure using a GPS.
Peter, I think you mean that you can fly a pattern resembling an NDB procedure using a GPS. You can also do it using all sorts of other equipment but without the NDB, its not an NDB procedure.