My husband teaches AOW, but it's one of his least favorite classes to teach here in Puget Sound. He'd love it, if the Deep dive weren't mandatory. Few students presenting for AOW have the skills you'd ideally like to see someone have to do deep dives. They can't control descents well enough to keep a buddy pair together, without going down a line. Their SAC rates are too high, mostly due to inefficient diving technique. Buoyancy control may be pretty decent at depth, but gets shaky in the shallows, where you want the most control at the end of a deep dive. And unless they went through our OW class or Peter's Nitrox class, they have no sense of gas management at all. You can't fix all of that in a single dive, or often in the three which are the maximum you get before you take the student deep (unless you want to schedule the Deep dive on a day of its own, anyway).
I'd like to see divers do a Fundies-like, intensive class on buoyancy, buddy skills, situational awareness, and gas management, before taking AOW. Or better yet, create an AOW that teaches THOSE things, and then let the student go on to do navigation and deep after he's had a chance to do a bit of diving at the OW level to solidify those skills.
I realize the OP's question really has to do with access. But the real question is, is that access wise?