So the IR may become accessible to far more people than at present. I am quite happy to add the EIR and then in turn the full IR to my IMC if that's the way ahead.
Still not sure why anyone would do the EIR in these circumstances. If you have an IMC rating and have used it a bit, you probably have the hours requirement for the "full" IR. The proposed TK is the same for the IR and the EIR. The EIR is really intended for someone learning IF from scratch, to enable them to get some utility out of the rating before they've got 40 hours.