This is a typical example of why the human race will become extinct, because no common sense will be applied to anything, certainly the regulators.
You could have someone who has done 100 hours in the last 12 months and goes over by a few days because the date of expiry is printed in micro writing on a licence which might be opened once year to check a medical,
then are forced to do a LPC.
Someone else with the bare minimum, and who you suspect ought to have a flight test can just get signed off.
I came across someone using their UK licence to fly in the US whose 5 year licence expired 4 years ago! It would appear neither the pilot understood he had an expiring licence and the US club didn't know what they were looking at.