My response is like Bjorn's despite being durn near on the opposite end of the country. My cross-country travel is flown exclusively on an IFR Flight Plan. I've not seen it as a burden, and with dual GNSS is filed and flown directly from departure gate to arrival gate.
The only exception I've found in my mouth breathing "G" is through Class B, Houston, to the NE. I've got to be a thousand feet above it, 11000', and at times the winds or total travel distance does not warrant it, so I file any of the GPS waypoints on the edges that skirt it. It is the same with DFW Class B further to the north; a single GPS waypoint to miss it, and I'm cleared as filed to my destination.
With our local coastal weather, it is easy to keep current as there is always fog. I will go out and fly approaches until I get tired of it.
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