I feel your pain, Paul. I got my instrument rating a couple of years ago and replaced my attitude and heading indicators with a pair of G5s driven by a brand-new Garmin 650. Looks and flies like a six-pack, but with lots of nice tricks up its sleeve. I’m happy flying with paper charts (plus my 650’s database), but here in Canada paper approach plates are going away as of this September. Maybe I can print the ones I need once I’ve downloaded the electronic copies.
Meanwhile, my wife happily follows along with Foreflight on the iPad in her lap. At least I’m not the one swearing at it when you touch the wrong part of the screen. (Not to say that I don’t fat-finger the 650 once in a while, but I can recover faster from that.)
Speaking of weather, my pain is different from yours. At this time of year most clouds here in Vancouver have ice in them, so getting actual isn’t such a great idea in a non-FIKI airplane. It took me two months to get an instructor and the weather to line up for my initial checkride, and I’ve been waiting almost a month so far trying to get my IPC.