As I have said repeatedly I am not against spin training, in fact I encourage it in all my PPL graduates, as part a post PPL aerobatics course, just Not during ab initio training.
Interesting. I took part in one of the longest running abinitio program (running since the 1950s and still going strong), and spin awareness training was an integral part of that program. Back in my days it was done on a T34 Mentor, mainly because it had similar flight characteristics compared with the basic trainer (beech bonanza F33), nowadays it's done on a Grob G120.