IMHO, you don't require spin training because you think someone is going to get out of a spin at 200ft. You require spin training because it increases one's understanding of how to fly the wing. What it feels like when things are about to let go. Modern training seems to labor under the notion that you can set up a realistic example of anything that might ever happen in an airplane. That's ludicrous. Computers are perfect for linear processing..."If A happens, then B". If that were all there is to it, we really SHOULD have computers flying airplanes. It turns out that there are a billion things or combinations of things that might happen, and only an adaptive, parallel processor (like the human mind) is up to the task. Thus, every experience is useful to the parallel processor, and every (reasonable) experience should be had, if possible. Our brains are (in certain ways) way smarter than we give them credit for...they're capable of filtering information and establishing links that our conscious minds aren't even aware of. Experiencing an aircraft in a spin is just one of an innumerable set of experiences that make flying an airplane "second nature", rather than an exercise better left to computers.
RIP to those involved. 
