Yes because DOT/CAA/CASA have always believed it to be highly dangerous to fly at low level and thus forbid people from learning about it under instruction at ab initio stage.
It's also illegal to fly in cloud on instruments, but we teach that to VFR students as a get out of trouble.
Then it is legal to fly below 500' due stress of weather, where illusions of the type that "may" have caused this crash are likely. But CASA won't let you train for it?