What Judd has said sounds like a sales pitch
Sorry to disappoint you but believe me, nothing could be further from the truth. All my own flying training was fortunately in the RAAF where instrument flying started right from ab-initio days until graduation at 210 hours with a full instrument rating. Much of that was on limited panel because of the unreliability of artificial horizons in those days.
No sales pitch there, just a heartfelt thanks to those instructors who, with great patience, taught me to fly on instruments when I was just 19.