Oh I got you!
Let me put it in this way. We are currently living in uncertain times where we cant predict what will be the situation in next month with this virus? Will there be new travel restrictions or will they ease out? Your points are valid. After some months when things go to normal there will be immigration gap created which needs to be filled. At that point a outland CoPR holder should be ready to travel. Maybe giving a travel authorization letter over email which is valid for one year or something like that would be helpful. This is just a suggestion. If going by current extension process we need to tell IRCC when we will be able to travel so that they can start the CoPR extension process. No one right now specially in India know when they will be in that position to tell IRCC. Other thing is that if wave 2 of this virus happens while CoPR extension is in progress then what? Oh man! such an uncertainty.
Totally agree with this. Nobody knows what the landscape would be in months to come. While situation seems to be improving in Canada, other countries are seeing spikes, so globally it is hard to predict.. If IRCC starts issuing travel authorization, that will help reducing no. of web forms they receive each day and help the applicants as well.. The positive thing here is that IRCC is still operating and evolving with the changing situation. Hopefully they will soon release helpful updates..