I'd agree that IFR is safer or at least provides more utility.

Passing thru various MOAs flying from RDU to LAL last weekend, some of
the MOAs were hot but apparently the hot parts were smaller than the
published limits. The controllers cleared me and others thru parts that
must have been cool. At the same time, they kept traffic out of certain
sections of the same MOA. We were all trying to avoid storms.


Mitty wrote:
I have to try to KBCK next week for a funeral. It is inside a MOA.

Filing IFR seems safer than going in VFR, but if I file and the MOA is
hot, what is ATC going to do?