Lots of interesting viewpoints here.
A further problem with launching into your first flying job without proper instrument flying skills - and a plan to maintain them- is that you may unknowingly become an expert at performance flying. It's a common habit that many of us have, easy to develop in VMC and a trap in the Dry. Performance flying is when you move the controls until the performance settles 'just right'.
To fly IFR well you will have to replace performance flying with proper
Instrument Attitude flying and it can be very difficult to unlearn bad habits.
This is particularly true when the pressure is on - say in a nightmare Sim check - when we fall back on what we first learned. If your habit is performance flying then you will fall back to pushing and shoving the controls. If your habit is proper Instrument Attitude flying then you will do this when ****s are trumps, and that at least gets you to first base.
I know of pilots who discovered the scourge of performance flying on the pre employment Sim check and it didn't go well for them.