I just don't get what the grumbling is about.
Then wait and watch because without the IMC there are going to be more DEAD BODIES than before, when those with no training attempt to fly in marginal weather. Throwing away a well established rating that is even recognised by insurance companies as improving safety, in favour of an expensive alternative that few pilots will take up, is not just lowering the standard, its grossly irresponsible!
In 1916 Capt Smith -Barry RFC invented Threat Error Management; ICAO didn't discover it until 1994, EASA some time later. In the UK the weather is a Threat, for many years we have Managed it with the IMC rating, now EASA who are new to this game, are making a fundamental Error by failing to recognise such a well established Threat for political expediency.