I always thought the practical r/t a bit of a waste of time.
Has it improved r/t?
What's important is that flying instructors teach from the start correct r/t procedure.
I have heard dreadful r/t from instructor instructors and Cpl instructors.
They have probably done practical r/t tests at some point.
Then you get nit picking from r/t examiners who pick up on things like 123.50 being said as one two three decimal five zero, the candidate being told not to say the zero. Why?
It's a significant number that shows the r/t wasn't clipped at the end.