The FAA are a lot more proactive and do pull tickets of pilots and instructors who don't come up to the required standards.
And its not uncommon for routes to be set which shall we say take into account natural features that help navigation.
The problems occur when the student picks up on the wrong feature.
My ppl test in the states was basically follow a highway and then the diversion "occurred" 5 miles before a waterway and the diversion point was right next to a bridge on the water way.
Conversely my CPL test in the UK had me going to a disused airfield on the chart which had got a pig farm built on it and in no way or form looked like an old airfield in the middle of the vale of York. You had to State that you were over you point due time etc but you couldn't identify it.
Unfortunately the magenta line solution means that there is nothing the pilot can do when in the future the GPS goes tits up.