I believe that is correct, starting when TR enabled automatic pass (July?).
However this week I’m seeing PL updates that appear to indicate that is no longer true.
Before TR threw the automatic pass switch, it did appear that TR’s algorithms were analyzing outside workouts and I received some fails when workouts were not completed to target (mostly traffic interruptions during an interval). However since then, up until this week as mentioned above, the automatic pass meant you could do anything outside and automatically receive PL credit.